From the Publisher
Laughing to DeathBestselling author, Penny Varvides is dead, and Lindsay Gordons friendship with Penny means that she feels compelled to find out who did it. The bizarre method of killing replicates a murder in Pennys latest book which only a handful of people have read... Val McDermid not only writes excellent, entertaining, suspenseful crime, she adds humour to the equation in a genre where laughs are often missing.
The writing is tough and colourful, the scene setting excellent.The Times Literary Supplement
Tough, exciting, moody and unpredictable. The Times
Neatly constructed and splendidly sarcastic. The Daily Telegraph
Has the reader gripped from the first page
both moody and hilarious and thoroughly unpredictable. Tribune
Compulsive reading. Herald
Plot, characterisation, pace are all first-rate. Sunday Telegraph
An ultra cunning denouement. Scotsman
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