Black Widow

Author: Christopher Brookmyre

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  • : $30.00 AUD
  • : 9781408707142
  • : Little, Brown Book Group
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  • : December 2015
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 29.99
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  • : Christopher Brookmyre
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Description

There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder.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...

Reviews

Tense, intense and quite, quite brilliant Jenny Colgan Has all the verbal and narrative energy of his best work. A pleasing mix of old and new, its country-hopping plot looks back to Grahame Greene and John Buchan, but the pop and media references are bang up-to-date -- John Dugdale Sunday Times One of Brookmyre's most accomplished books... razor sharp The Big Issue 'Brookmyre writes beautifully and describes an unfamiliar world vividly and credibly... I was hooked' -- Jessica Mann Literary Review

Author description

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full time novelist with the publication of QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING. Since the publication of A BIG BOY DID IT AND RAN AWAY he and his family decided to move away from Aberdeen and now live near Glasgow.