Dead Girl Walking
Chris Brookmyre
Jan 2015 · Hachette UK
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The sixth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.
Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose.
Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes.
Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike.
Pursued by those who would punish him for past crimes, Parlabane enters the world of Heike's band, Savage Earth Heart, a group at breaking point. Each of its members seems to be hiding something, not least its newest recruit Monica Halcrow, whose possible relationship with Heike has become a public obsession.
Monica's own story, however, reveals a far darker truth. Fixated on Heike from day one, she has been engulfed by paranoia, jealousy and fear, as she discovers the hidden price of fame.
From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it's too late, all while the walls are closing in on him...
Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose.
Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes.
Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike.
Pursued by those who would punish him for past crimes, Parlabane enters the world of Heike's band, Savage Earth Heart, a group at breaking point. Each of its members seems to be hiding something, not least its newest recruit Monica Halcrow, whose possible relationship with Heike has become a public obsession.
Monica's own story, however, reveals a far darker truth. Fixated on Heike from day one, she has been engulfed by paranoia, jealousy and fear, as she discovers the hidden price of fame.
From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it's too late, all while the walls are closing in on him...
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4.4
30 reviews
vanilla icke
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29 January 2015
I was knocked out by his earlier work, especially the Jasmine Sharp trilogy, but this is stratospheric. I quite literally *had* to keep going to the end. Jack Parlabane is back, smart, cynical and even better than ever. I'd say this is Brookmyre's 'Sgt Pepper', but since I loathe the Beatles, this is his 'Heathan Earth'. If you've yet to read Brookmyre, get 'Quite ugly one morning'. Get addicted. And if you're already familiar with his Czech-animation-at-fast-forward-speed plotting and vicious gouging of the great and the good, you will LOVE this.
Robin Stewart
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22 September 2015
Ending is a little drawn out, but otherwise an easy and enjoyable read.
Richard Tocknell
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7 October 2015
So happy Parlabane's back and it looks like he'll be coming round again
About the author
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 writers. His 2006 novel All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye won the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize, and his 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. He also co-writes historical crime fiction with his wife, Marisa Haetzman, under the pen name Ambrose Parry..
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