Long-listed for Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year Award 2017 (UK).

Pacey, gripping, absorbing, enthralling and all the other superlatives you can throw its way, Chris Brookmyre's Want You Gone is an absolute treat from beginning to end. * Chris High * It storms along with revelations aplenty. Brookmyre takes all the plot strands and twists them one way then the other. * Crime Fiction Lover * Brookmyre is a master of creating tension... I was up all night reading this book. * Mystery Scene * Pure literary dynamite * Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers and The Wolf * The most compelling thriller I've read all year * John Gilstrap * [A] fast-paced, action-packed, twisty thriller . . . expect tension, suspense, impeccable plotting and scary possibilities. * Choice * This book's a rush. * Peterborough Telegraph * Entertaining... nothing is allowed to sap the pace of the action. * Scotsman * A sharp and funny writer * Carl Hiaasen * Want You Gone is vintage Brookmyre - equal parts adrenaline and empathy, a plot that opens out like a Japanese flower dropped in hot water, and characters so real you want to reach through the page and save them. * Diana Gabaldon * One of the most ingenious thrillers I've read in a long time. * Washington Post * Chris Brookmyre has scaled new heights of invention. * TLS * A thriller combining its author's storytelling verve with a bravura display of technical know-how. (Thriller of the Month) * Sunday Times *

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING, which established him as one of Britain's leading crime novelists. His Jack Parlabane novels have sold more than one million copies in the UK alone.