Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316027632
Edition: Large Print e.
ISBN: 0316027634
Label: Little, Brown
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: August 14, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown
Studio: Little, Brown

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Rating: - Cuold do better - see me
Mostly I give Christopher Brookmyre's books four or five stars. True I tend not to like books with gratuitous violence of foul language, but he is normally so inventive that I forgive such transgressions. Not so with A snowball in hell! Brookmyre seems always determined to push at the boundaries of acceptability, and I have no problems with that. In this latest book however he doesn't push acceptability; he kicks it out of sight. He takes his hero Angelique de Xavia through an improbable series ... Read More

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Rating: - Entertaining and inventive cartoon nastiness
It's always worth buying the latest Brookmyre to see what bit of inventive nastiness he's come up with this time. Where some other authors would make all this mayhem stomach turning and unpleasant, Brookmyre somehow manages to get away with it because it comes across as cartoon violence; sort of "Reservoir Dogs" where the dogs in question are Huckleberry Hound and Deputy Dawg.

There were some excellent plot twists and it's definitely a page-turner, but I didn't like this as much as his ... Read More

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Rating: - Mr Spanks revenge
This is the second book I have read of CB's and was not dissapointed. I do however have to concede I enjoyed his last book Unsinkable Rubber Ducks more. It's difficult to say why, because both are really well crafted books that keep the reader engaged. I just felt that this didnt quite hit the bullseye regarding any real humour and its slightly convoluted plotline.Having said all that I would really recommend anyone to read a Brookmyre novel.

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Rating: - Not so much Dubh Ardrain as Down a Drain
This book reads as if it's been written over a period of time with large spaces between each bout of writing. It draws strongly on The Sacred Art of Stealing and shares some of the same characters, however the plot is not nearly as strong as TSAoS. The mini set pieces within the main story don't 'hang' together properly or form a cohesive whole. Brookmyre seems to seek to shock the reader with lots of (senseless) killing and little actual storyline. As with a lot of Brookmyre's work, the story appears ... Read More

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Rating: - Massively entertaining
A hard boiled heroine, a sensitive intelligent hero, a black hearted villain with a passion for indie pop, vicious satire of contemporary media culture, exuberant wit, sufficient plot twists to turn one cross-eyed.

Nope, I can't find anything not to like. A thoroughly recommended and entertaining raead

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