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Chris Brookmyre
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7 Jun 2012

Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty revenge. And however she looks at it, the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley means she's going to be busy.

Meanwhile, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly - and incompetently - working for her uncle Jim's private investigation business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real, and her only lead points to a professional assassin who has been dead for twenty years. Soon Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption and secrets that leaves her running for her life.


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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus (7 Jun 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0349123357
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349123356
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 2.7 x 19.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 30,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Prodigiously funny and inventive, here he takes crime fans exactly where they want to go (Daily Telegraph)

It should come with a special parental warning: it will leave you emotionally exhausted (in a good way) for weeks (Sunday Business Post Ireland)

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Chris's latest novel, out now in paperback, is a thrilling new direction for him that readers and critics alike love

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62 of 64 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars He's deid, Jim 31 May 2011
By Keris Nine TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
The latest novel from Chris Brookmyre (note that - Chris, not Christopher) marks a significant change for the author, with a new set of characters that are due to appear again in subsequent books. What's most notable about Where The Bodies Are Buried however (apart from the shortening of the author's first name), is that Brookmyre's latest novel is ...well, somewhat more conventional as a crime thriller than his previous semi-comic terrorist thrillers.

That's not to say that the author's trademark Glaswegian wit, irony and deadpan sarcasm isn't still in evidence, nor that he has lost any of the keenness of his observational satire of the bampots that pass for a Glasgow crime underworld. There's a great riff early in the book on the lack of subtlety among the criminal fraternity north of the border, where a crime is not so much a "whodunit" as a "cannaemisswhodunit". Somewhat surprisingly then, Where The Bodies Are Buried is pretty much a whodunit and the new characters introduced in this novel are a police detective and a Private Investigator.

Jasmine Sharp is an out-of-work actress who is employed by her ex-police force PI uncle Jim, to help him out with the usual ham-fisted insurance claims and scams that make up the majority of his work. When Jim goes missing however, Jasmine discovers that he's been working on a couple of other long-standing missing person cases that may be linked to his own disappearance. The Glasgow police however have other matters to worry about when DI Catherine Geddis looks into the killing of a criminal that seems to have sparked off a war between the city's drug lords, but finds that her investigations appear to be hampered from agencies within the police force itself.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable but a bit ordinary 21 Jun 2011
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed this novel, and it was better than a post Rebus Rankin that I struggled through just before it. It lacks the spark that made me want to read all the other Brookmyres though. "A snowball in hell" is my favourite of his books, whilst "a tale etched in blood and hard black pencil" got me into him.
It would be hard for him to continue along in that line without becoming repetitive though, so this is a bit different for him, but does make him more like many other crime writers. It gets a bit boring reading cliched descriptions of cops with dyfunctional family lives because they work too hard, bent coppers etc.
So, a good book but unusually for him not a brilliant book.
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44 of 50 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Plotted by his agent? 21 Jun 2011
By Janus
Format:Hardcover
Like other reviewers here, a Brookmyre completist (initially ensnared by "Not the end of the world"). Totally sold on his Hiaasen like take on the political, religious, wacky -well if you weren't laughing you'ld have to cry - world of Central and West Scotland. And then Pandaemonium, and then this. A less than totally convincing swing into sci-fi fantasy, and then a serviceable but totally unremarkable whodunit.

It only gets two stars from me because it could have been a less readable pot-boiler - and I admit I read it straight through - but it lacks just about all the elements that make Brookmyre's previous books different and exceptional. I certainly will be watching the reviews, and almost certainly waiting until the paperback release of his next one.

So where's the body? It may just be that he's run out of plot lines in his politics/sectarianism/corruption box: Scotland is a lot duller under devolution, with fewer Sassenach carpet-baggers or press barons to worry about. The seams based on teenage tearaways, then and grown up a bit may be getting thin.

But I suspect that he's where many an indie singer-songwriter finds themselves after the sixth album, trying to get out of his niche, cross-over, whatever. Produce plots that will sustain a Glaswegian Wire, perhaps. At least avoiding multi-layered plots that TV commissioning editors despair of turning into a ninety minute special, and introducing characters without pre-watershed blemishes (no alcoholics or lesbians,or Ugandan Asian Special Branch female anti-terrorist amazons, for example). Little late for the two female detective slot, I fear.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Losing it 8 Jun 2011
By dummers
Format:Hardcover
I've had my Brookmyres on pre-order from Amazon ever since "Ugly One Morning", even tho' my faith wavered after the dire "Pandaemonium". But no more! This latest one is sadly lacking in the old energy - in fact it's almost DULL.

I think Brookmyre's forgotten what made him so good in the first place, and he's now trying to write Grown Up. As a result, the book is clogged up by:-

* 'Proper' words like "ostensibly", "exacerbated", etc, instead of the old joyous, salty slang;
* A 'womans' point of view, god help us, man, stick to what you know. The sex scenes from the viewpoint of DI Catherine McLeod were embarrassing;
* Some of the most laborious driving you could imagine - "He drove east along the Gallowgate, past the Barrowland and round the dog-leg up to Tollcross Road. His pace was steady and careful [you're telling me].....he turned left off Tollcross Road before it became Hamilton Road, heading north past Tolllcross Park..." on and on we go. OK, you've convinced us, you know Glasgow. Every Brookmyre since "Ugly One Morning" has contained padding, but the padding has always been FUN before.

Off to re-read "Boiling A Frog"
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars new direction, give it a shot
i liked it. i've read most of brookmyre's other books, and enjoyed them. this one was clearly a departure from them, as he's shortened his name and got a moody-looking cover. Read more
Published 15 hours ago by grimlen
5.0 out of 5 stars Another page turner from Brookmyre
Gruesome Glasgow gangsters of all types, goodies and baddies....but Chris keeps you guessing who is which right to the last page.
Published 24 days ago by R. Wright
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
Another good crime/thriller story by Brookmyre, featuring Jasmine Sharp, a new and somewhat inept private investigator, who starts out rather irritating but develops into a more... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Dr H E Brambley
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but no longer Die Hard wi a kilt oan
A good detective story with the twists, violence and light harted, dark, humour that is typical for Brookmyre.
With a name change comes a new 'line' of books it seems. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Eric
3.0 out of 5 stars Where the old Brookmyre is Buried
Having seen a few reviews my expectations were not high, so in the end this departure from the normal, hilarious, rant-filled Brookmyre of old wasn't as bad as I thought it would... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Fopstar
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Another brilliant book from chris brookmyre ! Makes you want to read faster and flick to the next page as you have to find out where he is taking you next. Fantastic read!!!!
Published 3 months ago by Pen Name
4.0 out of 5 stars A bit different
For those who were expecting another satyrical black comedy from Brookmyre this is a bit different. It is a much more serious story with some funny moments rather than his more... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jamesy
4.0 out of 5 stars Still a good read
Brookmyre is one of my favourite authors and although this is a change from his usually style I still enjoyed it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by LMS72
5.0 out of 5 stars Fab
Only a murder can be funny written by Chris, easy reading,love the way you feel like you are'nt reading.The patters not bad either.BRILLIANT.
Published 3 months ago by Cat
1.0 out of 5 stars Where the Bodies are Buried
Awful. It pains me to say it but I thought this book was awful. I usually love Brookmyre but his next book will have to deliver big time, if he's to take a position among my... Read more
Published 4 months ago by toyrobot
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