if you haven't yet you really need to read some of brookmyre's stuff , his first book "quite ugly one morning" is laugh out loud funny
He's one tartan noir author that I haven't tried but should!
Denise Mina latest novel Blood, Salt, Water written with the backdrop of the independence referendum for the mystery is receiving great reviews and word of mouth and I'm sorely tempted to put it on my must buy list as Denise is a fiercely intelligent author of tartan noir who's style is a little different to many others.
i'm about 2/3 of my way through his first McLean novel , enjoying it but dont know if i have been reading too many authors of this style recently as it does feel a little samey in terms of the range of characters
interested to see how he pulls all the different storylines together tho
i'm about 2/3 of my way through his first McLean novel , enjoying it but dont know if i have been reading too many authors of this style recently as it does feel a little samey in terms of the range of characters
interested to see how he pulls all the different storylines together tho
I like his stories but some of the characters such as the idiot boss do seem to be a bit cliched.
just finished it now , i'll put my main thought in spoilers just in case
i thought the supernatural element to the story and the "demon" was a bit out of place in a novel of this genre , not sure it really worked well
I really liked it but I agree those elements were in a sense superfluous in the sense that the story could have worked well without them but I didn't find their presence problematic -they added something I felt if your intrigued by such things but the dynamic it added was non essential.
i'm about 2/3 of my way through his first McLean novel , enjoying it but dont know if i have been reading too many authors of this style recently as it does feel a little samey in terms of the range of characters
interested to see how he pulls all the different storylines together tho
Have you tried Caro Ramsay or Denise Mina yet? Both highly recommended and quite different to James Oswald. 👍
Rankin, MacBride, McDermid are all great.
Personally I loathe Denise Mina's work and Brookmyre is really patchy, he's not as funny as he thinks he is and his plots are often really predictable.
I think I read a Ramsey once but it wasn't particularly memorable.
Rankin, MacBride, McDermid are all great.
Personally I loathe Denise Mina's work and Brookmyre is really patchy, he's not as funny as he thinks he is and his plots are often really predictable.
I think I read a Ramsey once but it wasn't particularly memorable.
dont agree about brookmyre , his early books in particular were right up my street as far as the sense of humour was concerned , maybe he has tried to get a bit too clever with some of his later books but i still enjoyed them
the section of "a big boy did it and ran away" about aberdeen really made me laugh for example
dont agree about brookmyre , his early books in particular were right up my street as far as the sense of humour was concerned , maybe he has tried to get a bit too clever with some of his later books but i still enjoyed them
the section of "a big boy did it and ran away" about aberdeen really made me laugh for example
The earlier ones were ok. I read them out of order which is why I said patchy rather than declining in quality I suppose.
i've recommended christopher brookmyre a few times in this forum
one of my favourite authors
I took you up on that recommendation (finally), and I haven't regretted it one bit. Christopher Brookmyre is a wicked, wicked man. Love his writing to bits.
I took you up on that recommendation (finally), and I haven't regretted it one bit. Christopher Brookmyre is a wicked, wicked man. Love his writing to bits.
Thanks.
nice , always good to see someone enjoy a new author to them
Does anyone know if anyone has written books in this style were the main character is Gay?
I am not interested in any of those M/M erotic novels, looking something with a bit more grit
I think POSSIBLY a tartan noir author called Louise Welsh may have a strong presence of main gay characters in some of her novels but you'd need to research that pointer
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if you haven't yet you really need to read some of brookmyre's stuff , his first book "quite ugly one morning" is laugh out loud funny
He's one tartan noir author that I haven't tried but should!
Denise Mina latest novel Blood, Salt, Water written with the backdrop of the independence referendum for the mystery is receiving great reviews and word of mouth and I'm sorely tempted to put it on my must buy list as Denise is a fiercely intelligent author of tartan noir who's style is a little different to many others.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unburied-Dead-DS-Thomas-Hutton-ebook/dp/B00GXFBXCK/ref=sr_1_84?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441000963&sr=1-84
An interesting blog article on the appeal of tartan noir
they sometimes give you the first book by an author for free in the hope you will buy others
there are loads of free books available for the kindle
i'm about 2/3 of my way through his first McLean novel , enjoying it but dont know if i have been reading too many authors of this style recently as it does feel a little samey in terms of the range of characters
interested to see how he pulls all the different storylines together tho
I like his stories but some of the characters such as the idiot boss do seem to be a bit cliched.
just finished it now , i'll put my main thought in spoilers just in case
I really liked it but I agree those elements were in a sense superfluous in the sense that the story could have worked well without them but I didn't find their presence problematic -they added something I felt if your intrigued by such things but the dynamic it added was non essential.
Have you tried Caro Ramsay or Denise Mina yet? Both highly recommended and quite different to James Oswald. 👍
James Oswald is doing very well -He's just signed a six figure deal!
no but got them on my radar , got about 17 books in my "unread" file on my kindle already
I've never tried kindle but your devotion to reading is phenomenonal! It's amazing how much tartan noir has grown in the past decade.
Personally I loathe Denise Mina's work and Brookmyre is really patchy, he's not as funny as he thinks he is and his plots are often really predictable.
I think I read a Ramsey once but it wasn't particularly memorable.
dont agree about brookmyre , his early books in particular were right up my street as far as the sense of humour was concerned , maybe he has tried to get a bit too clever with some of his later books but i still enjoyed them
the section of "a big boy did it and ran away" about aberdeen really made me laugh for example
The earlier ones were ok. I read them out of order which is why I said patchy rather than declining in quality I suppose.
I took you up on that recommendation (finally), and I haven't regretted it one bit. Christopher Brookmyre is a wicked, wicked man. Love his writing to bits.
Thanks.
nice , always good to see someone enjoy a new author to them
I am not interested in any of those M/M erotic novels, looking something with a bit more grit
I think POSSIBLY a tartan noir author called Louise Welsh may have a strong presence of main gay characters in some of her novels but you'd need to research that pointer
quite a few books in the series so i'll update once i have got into the first one