If you like Brookmyre
you'll be disappointed by pandaemonium. it's got the odd good character and some classic lines but it's tired and he seems to be writing by his own numbers at times. Plus the plot is disappointing, to say the least.

i mean, I enjoyed it, but it's not even in the same league as the Darcourt/Innes/Di Xavia trilogy or the Parlabane stuff.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:46, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I've read the Parlabane stuff
and some stand alone ones. I need to check out the others you mention.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:47, Reply)

Start with "A big boy did it.."
Then the other two in the trilogy. Also "all fun and games until somebody loses an eye" is excellent.

have you read all the Parlabane ones?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:49, Reply)

I've read the oil rig one, the house one with the cannibalism and the one with the medium
I struggle with the names because I read a load of his books close together and they are random.

I will do as you suggest, thanks
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:54, Reply)

Oil rig is "one fine day in the middle of the night" I think
canniablism on is "be my enemy" and the medium one is "attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks"

Those are the later ones. "boiling a frog" is the first one I think (and possibly his first novel) and "quite ugly one morning" ... the other parlabane one is "country of the blind" which is brilliant.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:59, Reply)

I've also read A tale etched in blood and hard black pencil
maybe one other as well...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 12:02, Reply)

"not the end of the world" is also excellent.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 12:12, Reply)