Black Widow: Award-Winning Crime Novel of the Year: 2 (Jack Parlabane) - Hardcover

Brookmyre, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408707152 ISBN 13: 9781408707159

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2016

Synopsis

*Winner of the 2016 Crime Novel of the Year at Bloody Scotland*

Twists abound in the brilliant new psychological thriller from master author Chris Brookmyre - perfect for readers of The Girl on the Train, I See You and Disclaimer.

Did she do it? Did he deserve it?

Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing.

Then she meets Peter. He's kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past: the second chance she's been waiting for.

Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident, a nightmare end to their fairytale romance.

But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairytales, and tasks maverick reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling Black Widow...

About this title

Review:

A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing (Ian Rankin)

Black Widow is a stand-out thriller, reminiscent of the best of Nordic Noir but with its own vivid landscape (Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer)

Brookmyre opens with a dramatic court scene, followed by a series of clever twists that challenge the reader to work out who is the victim of an extremely sophisticated crime (Sunday Times)

Exceptionally good - a knotty mystery that's not just richly, provocatively political but one of the most perceptive excavations of a dysfunctional marriage I can remember reading.... Brookmyre plays a cunning, careful game (Guardian)

I didn't know what was going to happen next in this epic thriller. I urge you to read it, too (Sun)

The story's characters are compelling and the mystery is evoked with scalpel-like precision (Daily Mail)

This is mystery plotting at its highest level, all the disparate strands forming into a web and then into a knot that tightens around victim, detective and reader (Spectator)

It's only as you're racing through the final tense pages, full of betrayal, revenge and shocking revelations, that you realise the brilliance behind the construction of this utterly compulsive, whipsmart thriller (Sunday Mirror)

A gripping, complex and classy crime novel. (Mail on Sunday YOU Magazine)

Chilling, gripping and exquisitely unpredictable (Daily Record)

Book Description:

Twists abound in the brilliant new psychological thriller from master author Chris Brookmyre, starring his legendary character Jack Parlabane, and perfect for readers of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1408707152
• ISBN 13: 9781408707159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432