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  • Quite Ugly One Evening: Jack Parlabane is back in this ingenious locked-room mystery

    Quite Ugly One Evening by Brookmyre, Chris;

    Jack Parlabane is back in this ingenious locked-room mystery

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Little, Brown
    • Date of Publication 7 May 2026

    • ISBN 9780349145839
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages400 pages
    • Size 232x152x34 mm
    • Weight 480 g
    • Language English
    • 685

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    Short description:

    Jack Parlabane is back in this gripping, devilishly entertaining locked-room mystery from award-winning author Chris Brookmyre

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    Long description:

    'The plot is breathtaking, the setting beautiful and the characters are written with genuine depth. And smack bang in the middle of this Succession-meets-The Traitors novel is Brookmyre's most iconic character: the monumental Jack Parlabane. Irrepressible, acerbic and positively rubbing this hands with glee. Absolutely brilliant' M. W. Craven

    'Brookmyre at his twisted best... Laugh out loud and perfectly conceived. What a bloody triumph' Helen Fields

    An Atlantic voyage. A family at war. A secret worth killing over.

    Reporter Jack Parlabane thrives on chasing stories in unlikely places, and where could be less likely than a fan convention on a cruise liner celebrating a contentious Sixties TV series? But unlike the media family exploiting their show's renewed relevance, he's not there to stoke controversy: he's there to solve a murder.

    Already in deep water with his employer, Jack desperately needs a win, and solving this decades-old mystery could be it. Problem is, he's in the middle of the Atlantic, and someone onboard has already killed once to keep their secret.

    And that's not even the tricky part. No, the tricky part is definitely the dead body locked in a stateroom with him, covered in his blood. Now Jack has to solve two murders, otherwise the only way he's getting off this ship is in handcuffs - or in a body bag.

    Quite Ugly One Evening is a zeitgesty locked-room mystery that sees the return of rogue journalist Jack Parlabane thirty years after his first appearance in Quite Ugly One Morning.

    Praise for Chris Brookmyre:
    'Chris Brookmyre is a genius' Richard Osman

    'In the pantheon of great crime writers' Elly Griffiths

    'There's nothing he can't do' Mick Herron

    'Chris Brookmyre is a storytelling mastermind' Chris Whitaker

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