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Winner of the 2016 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the year
From Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any moment, to end everything.
Diana Jager is clever, strong, and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism in medicine. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing. Then she meets Peter. He is kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past—the second chance she's been waiting for. Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident, a nightmare end to their fairy-tale romance. But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairy tales, and tasks rogue reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling the Black Widow.
Still on the mend from a turbulent divorce, Jack's investigation into matters of the heart takes him to hidden places no one should ever have to go.
- Sales Rank: #44631 in Books
- Published on: 2016-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.50" w x 5.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 432 pages
Review
Praise for Black Widow:
Shortlisted for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger
“Hair-raising . . . [A] devilishly complicated mystery. Don’t even try to guess the outcome.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
“Exceptionally good—a knotty mystery that’s . . . one of the most perceptive excavations of a dysfunctional marriage I can remember reading . . . Brookmyre plays a cunning, careful game, allowing Diana to co-narrate so plausibly that we are never sure if she is genuinely empathetic (and therefore unfairly maligned as a psychopath) or just brilliant at emulating emotion for our benefit.”—Guardian (UK)
“Mystery plotting at its highest level, all the disparate strands forming into a web and then into a knot that tightens around victim, detective and reader . . . Top marks.”—Spectator (UK)
“Brookymre has always dealt with current issues and trends, and in Black Widow he tackles online harassment and bullying, particularly of women . . . An intelligently entertaining novel from a writer whose work has grown and evolved over the years to make him one of the most interesting of the ‘tartan noir’ set. Never predictable and always contemporary, Brookmyre has, like his most popular creation, become even more interesting as he’s matured.”—National (Scotland)
“Just when you think you’ve got things straight, Christopher Brookmyre throws you another curveball in his newest book, Black Widow. Brookmyre builds layers of intrigue like a chef crafting a multilayer cake, with each layer providing another tantalizing clue or red herring to keep readers guessing.”—BookPage
“A consistently gripping read . . . Full of engaging twists, Brookmyre’s latest thriller featuring unconventional journalist Jack Parlabane is as compelling as it is clever.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Told in elegant slices, cutting between a courtroom trial and the events surrounding it, the story’s characters are compelling and the mystery is evoked with scalpel-like precision by the talented Brookmyre.”—Daily Mail (UK)
“It’s only as you’re racing through the final tense pages, full of betrayal, revenge and shocking revelations, that you realise the brilliance behind the constructions of this utterly compulsive, whipsmart thriller.”—Sunday Mirror (UK)
“Enthralling and entertaining.”—Daily Express (UK)
“Just when you think the plot can’t twist again, it takes a new turn. Even the twists have twists.”—McIlvanney Prize judging panel
“A biting satire, nuanced enough to avoid polemic, about the medical profession.”—Sunday Telegraph (UK), 4/5 stars
“A smart thriller with a killer twist at the end.”—Irish Independent (UK)
“Brookmyre opens the novel with a dramatic court scene, followed by a series of clever twists that challenge the reader to work out who is the victim of an extremely sophisticated crime.”—Sunday Times (UK)
“A compelling and memorable tale for readers of Tana French and those who enjoy the British TV show Happy Valley.”—Booklist
“Black Widow is a powerful, captivating and brilliantly twisted piece of crime fiction. But it is also more than that, moving beyond genre conventions to provide a feminist exploration of gender inequalities in the workplace and a humorous parody of its own narrative expectation . . . A thoroughly enjoyable read.”—The Skinny (UK)
About the Author
Christopher Brookmyre is the author of eighteen previous novels, including his acclaimed and internationally bestselling series featuring Jasmine Sharp and Catherine McLeod. He has won many awards for his work, including the Critics' First Blood Award, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award.
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Women, surgery, love, and mystery, Scottish style.
By OlgaNM
Thanks to NetGalley and to Grove Atlantic for providing me with an ARC copy of this novel that I freely chose to review.
I have read several books written by Christopher Brookmyre years back and I loved them. I discovered him by picking up The Secret Art of Stealing at Liverpool Airport on the strength of reading the description and a few lines. The book had me laughing out loud within a few pages, and since then I’ve read a few of his novels, although I haven’t followed any of his series in full. I couldn’t resist the chance to catch up with his newest book, although I hadn’t read any of the other novels in the Parlabane series. And he delivered once more.
I loved this book. There were the funny and witty moments the author had me accustomed to (although it is, by no means, his funniest book), the complex and tri-dimensional characters, the Scottish background, the complex plot with twist and turns that keep you guessing. I particularly liked the different points-of-view used to tell the story. Two of the points of views (although one only very briefly) are narrated in the first person, and the rest, including Parbalane’s and the female detective’s, are in the third person. I am fascinated by narrators and their roles in novels, and the way Brookmyre uses the different voices and points-of-view in this novel is a beautiful illustration of how the different options can be put to the best of uses. We get to see the same facts and events from different points of views, some directly involved in them, some who are investigating or being told the same, some at the time and some recounting what happened some time ago. Brookmyre puts the brains of his readers to the test, making them try to create a single consistent story from the different versions of events and different timelines, a bit like trying to complete the picture in a jigsaw puzzle from the disparate pieces. The story is cleverly composed sharing clues that wrong-foot us often, and we keep changing our minds as to our sympathies, suspects, and who the goodies and the baddies are. I can honestly say I kept trying to work out if I was being taken for a ride by the narrators or if I was just being given very partial accounts of the events.
It’s difficult to talk in detail about this novel without giving any spoilers away. Being a doctor, and a woman, I felt particularly drawn to one the characters, the female surgeon who tells her version of the story in the first person, Diana Jager. She is by no means perfect and due to her determined actions has come to be feared and disliked, but I empathised with her experiences and her feelings about the career and the inherent difficulties women have to face (I remember as a medical student training in a hospital where one of the surgery firms would not take on female trainees, the only female surgeon with a regular post was known to be the lover of one of the surgeons and never did a day’s surgery in several months I was there, and among women the accepted wisdom was that women had to work twice as hard as men to get less than half the way up the ladder than they did. I hope things have changed since but I’m not confident). But the rest of the characters are equally interesting and non-standard. Although as I mentioned I haven’t read any of the previous Parlabane’s mysteries, I didn’t find that was an impediment to my enjoyment of the book, although I’m sure those who follow the series might enjoy it even more (if that’s possible).
The story is dynamically told, and if anything, I thought it accelerates towards the end (as is usually the case when we see the resolution coming). I can’t say I saw what was going to happen from the beginning, although I sometimes beat Parlabane to the post, but just by little. I enjoyed the cleverness of the story and the way was written too. A case of form perfectly matching content.
An involved and intriguing story, beautifully told, full of local detail and complex characters, that reflects on serious themes and will keep you guessing until the end, recommended to lovers of mysteries and thrillers. Another great book by Brookmyre.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
OK vacation read
By Klaus Frandsen
Well structured but with less of the sarkastic wit which has been Brookmyre's trademark in earlier books. Not a must have book but works for a lazy vacation day
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Something Different that Works.
By Amazon Customer
Great read! Alternating viewpoints, gradual character reveals, keeps on holding interest.......
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