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Something rotten is happening in the town of Millport, on the island of Cumbrae. Plans are being made, money is being thrown around, an empire is being built... and people are getting murdered. A man has a stiletto thrust into his eye socket, another his windpipe brutally squeezed shut, whilst a kidnapped youth lies curled in a cage, unaware of what it is that lives inside him.Meanwhile, at the local barbershop, Barney Thomson lives a quiet life, cutting hair, wishing his customers would stop talking, and happy that he doesn't seem to be involved in the latest horror to be visited upon the town. However, as Barney has known for a long time, you can't always get what you want, particularly when you don't know what it is you want in the first place...Douglas Lindsay is the author of over twenty novels, including BALLAD IN BLUE, A ROOM WITH NO NATURAL LIGHT, BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR KITE! and LOST IN JUAREZ, as well as the DS HUTTON and DCI JERICHO crime series. The first book in the BARNEY THOMSON series, THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON, was released as a motion picture in 2015, starring Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson and Ray Winstone.Three titles in the DI WESTPHALL series will be coming from Mulholland Books in 2019.He lives in Somerset, England."Lindsay has a real ear for dialogue and a highly visual imagination." - SUNDAY MIRRORPraise for Barney Thomson novels:"Gleefully macabre, hugely enjoyable black burlesque." The Scotsman"Gloriously over the tope, very bloody, and very, very funny." The Daily Telegraph"Highly entertaining black comedy." Heat"Another great instalment in what is becoming a cult series." Booklore"Satisfyingly surreal." Birmingham Post"A mad, macabre romp with surreal characters and cutting black humour." The Sunday Mirror"This is extremely well-written, highly amusing and completely unpredictable in its outrageous plot twists and turns." The List"With classic timing and delight in the grotesque, Lindsay has crafted a macabre masterpiece where content lives up to style." What's On Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Barney is a barber in Millport on the Scottish island of Cumbrae. I get the impression that Barney has found himself in proximity to violent crime a number of times in the past but now he is hoping for a tranquil life with his companions at the barbershop, Keanu and Igor, and his police officer partner, Monk.
However, a predatory businessman by the name of Crane, with a hyperbolic turn of phrase and a confected combover, is trying to take over the island. He wants to build a resort, complete with golf course. He’s even talking about independence – not of Scotland but of Cumbrae itself.
Then the (brutal but highly imaginative) killings start. Are Crane and his people to blame? Monk finally has a case worthy of her talents to investigate.
Barney’s is a strange and wonderful world. It is both comic and macabre. It fizzes with cultural references while affectionately parodying small-town life. The conversation between Barney, Keanu and Igor ranges from the philosophical to the absurd – and look out for the characters’ names!
Beneath it all there is a gentle melancholy as the peace which Barney seeks eludes him, even in this remote and beautiful place.
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