by Christopher Brookmyre · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408700624
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«A Snowball in Hell» is Christopher Brookmyre's black comedy novel, published by Little, Brown in paperback (393 pages, in English).
Simon Darcourt is a killer who turns his crimes into a spectacle: he broadcasts them online and lets the public vote on the lives of his victims. The police turn to Angelique De Xavier, who has faced him before. To close the case, Angelique needs the magical skills of her lover Zal, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Third installment in the Angelique De Xavier series. Nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2009.
A read for those who enjoy thrillers with black humor and social satire.
Christopher Brookmyre is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning; subsequent works have included All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005), Black Widow (2016) and Bedlam (2013), which was written in parallel with the development of a first-person shooter videogame, also called Bedlam. He also writes historical fiction with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry.
