# Quite Ugly One Morning

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- Book: [Quite Ugly One Morning](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-brookmyre/quite-ugly-one-morning) ([Quite Ugly One Morning.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-brookmyre/quite-ugly-one-morning.md))
- Authors: [Chris Brookmyre](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-brookmyre)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4813-203-4
- Published: 2011-06-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This is story of murder, corruption and sin. And that's just the hero. Every great story begins with something unspeakable . . . the first Jack Parlabane thriller, from multi-award-winning author Chris Brookmyre. Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell? Quite Ugly One Morning is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited, and heralds the arrival of a crime fiction legend, journalist Jack Parlabane. 'A lean, nasty, fun little page-turner' New York Times 'Brookmyre is always a class act' The Observer 'A sharp, funny novel' TLS 'A wicked satire' Scotsman