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    Where the Bodies are Buried

    Written by Chris Brookmyre

    Narrated by Sarah Barron

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    From the award-winning author of Pandaemonium.

    In Glasgow, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly - and incompetently - earning a crust working for her uncle Jim's private investigation business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real. Soon she stumbles into a web of corruption and decades-hidden secrets that could tear apart an entire police force - if she can stay alive long enough to tell the tale…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJun 2, 2011
    ISBN9781407483726
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    • 4/5
      This is a slight change in style for Chris Brookmyre (When did he decide to be Chris? Was it for this departure in style?). It's still crime, it's still Glasgow, the dialogue is still snappy and humorous. That's where the similarity ends. There's none of the comically inept criminals, no ranting by the author (that I spotted),no repeat characters (although I believe that he's going to continue with this strand and carry forward Jasmine as the lead), this is a more conventional crime novel.

      So what does actually happen. It starts with what appears to be a Glasgow Gangland killing. We then follow the story via two sets of lead characters: Jasmine, a drama student turned PI who is helping out her ex-cop Uncle and Catherine a Glasgow detective investigating the aforementioned killing. Initially they are looking at very different crimes but, as is traditional with Brookmyre, they all intersect in the end. I doubt if that is much of a spoiler for you.

      As far as the characters are concerned, they are nicely drawn and the dialogue is snappy and full of Glesca humour. I didn't like Jasmine initally, but warmed to her a little by the end. I though Catherine was an excellent character and the various other police worked well. Particularly liked Tron even thought I had worked out the
      twists in his story quite early on.

      I'll happily continue to be a fan of Christopher Brookmyre & will read the next one when it makes it to paperback. Just hope he's going to carry forward Catherine as well as Jasmine!
    • 3/5
      Enjoyable enough to read book 2.

      I dated this as 3 stars, only because I didn't find it as really riveting. The two, seemingly unrelated, storylines kept me wondering when they would merge. Instead of adding to the mystery I found it to be a bit distracting. The storyline(s) formed a complex, realistic mystery where the good guys/bad guys wasn't a clear black and white. The ending was in some ways as fulfilling as real life. I loved the author's use of language. I will read the next book in the series to see Jasmine's continued growth.
    • 4/5
      really enjoyed this one, very good characters which seemed quite credible
    • 3/5
      This book is set in Glasgow.There is a drugs war, A private eye goes missing his niece Jasmine Sharp is worried about him.She enlists the help of a dangerous stranger who has been away from Glasgow a long time. Police are also investigating the deaths of some criminals. OK book with a few secrets that come to light.
    • 4/5
      Catherine McLeod, a Detective Superintendent in the Glasgow police, realises her holiday is over when she’s given the case of the murder of a high level member of one of the local drug gangs. If this is a precursor to a gang war then why has she been given it and not LOCUST, the organised crime unit? Meanwhile, Jasmine Sharp, an aspiring actress, has accepted her uncle’s offer of a job so she can keep paying her rent. She finds that she’s not really cut out for the private investigations business but she’ll need to improve rapidly when her uncle Jim disappears and the only lead she can muster is an assassin who’s been dead for 20 years.This is the first book of a series that is distinctly more serious than the author’s previous work. That’s not to say this book is lacking in the humour that Mr. Brookmyre is renowned for as there is plenty to be found in the banter between the police and their discourse with the local hoodlums. There’s just less of the situational comedy used in previous releases. The reader follows the two streams through twists and turns until they converge and provide a well-plotted and paced mystery novel with the added bonus of having not one but two strong female leads. Having been a fan of Christopher Brookmyre’s work for a while it’s good to know I can follow Chris Brookmyre’s releases just as avidly.
    • 4/5
      This is the first book of a series.The book starts with two separate threads, put into alternating chapters. One features a young woman, Jasmine Sharp, who has just started working for her private investigator relative. She's been through a rough patch recently, her mother died and she dropped out of college where she had studied acting. She is not doing well at investigating, having recently lost a man she was tailing; and she is very unsure of her abilities. Early in the book her Uncle goes missing and she decides to try to find him by looking into cases he was recently working on, after it appears that the police will not be doing anything about it.The other part of the book features Catherine McCleod, a DS in the Glasgow police, who is assigned to the murder of a crime gang figure whose body is found near the trash bins of a business he owns, having been beaten and tortured before he was killed. She is married and the mother of two boys, and we get alot about her personal life as well as the investigation. Jasmine's investigation leads her to a DV shelter, where a man, Tron Ingrams, works providing handyman skills and apparently some protection also, and while she is driving with him, their car is attacked and shot at by unknown men in another vehicle. Tron decides to go with Jasmine to try to figure out why she/he/or they were targeted, and I found that this character gave the book most of its life. He brings alot of tension, energy and spirit to the book, both in his relationship with Jasmine, but also with DS McCleod, who has an intense dislike for him. I plan to read the rest of the books of this series (two more have already been written) and they are marketed as “Jasmine Sharp and DS McCleod” stories, but I hope that this other character is included.
    • 4/5
      Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don’t do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do can’t-miss-whodunit. It’s a lesson that has served her well, but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it, she recognises that the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley is merely a portent of further deaths to come.

      Elsewhere in the city, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly – and incompetently – earning a crust working for her Uncle Jim’s private investigation business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real and her only lead points to Glen Fallan, a gangland enforcer and professional assassin whose reputation is rendered only slightly less terrifying by having been dead for twenty years. Cautiously tracing an accomplished killer’s footsteps, Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption and decades-hidden secrets that could tear apart an entire police force – if she can stay alive long enough to tell the tale.

      Having not read any of Christopher/Chris Brookmyre previous novels so cannot comment on how this ‘off piste’ novel compares but I loved it!
      The two female leads were especially well drawn, the contrast between middle aged, married, world weary Catherine and innocent, fragile teenager Jasmine. I love it when a male author ‘gets’ the female psyche .

      The writing is fast paced with enough twists, turns and red herrings to satisfy the most demanding of crime readers. It is only as you finish the book that the reader can appreciate how tightly y the story was woven. The sardonic, dark wit is pitch-perfect and made me smile far too often considering the subject matter. This is very, very good crime fiction.

      'This is Glesca.'... 'Any time you're confused, take a wee minute to remind yourself of that inescapable fact: this is Glesca. We don't do subtle, we don't do nuanced, we don't do conspiracy. We do pish-heid bampot bludgeoning his girlfriend to death in a fit of paranoid rage induced by forty-eight hours straight on the batter. We do coked-up neds jumping on a guy's heid outside a nightclub because he looked at them funny. We do drug-dealing gangster rockets shooting other drug-dealing gangster rockets as comeback for something almost identical a fortnight ago. We do bam-on-bam. We do tit-for-tat, score-settling, feuds, jealousy, petty revenge. We do straightforward. We do obvious. We do cannaemisswhodunit. When you hear hoofbeats on Sauchiehall Street, it's gaunny be a horse, no' a zebra...'..

      "It didn't really seem like Glasgow at all. Apart from the guy lying on the deck in the advanced stages of a severe kicking. That was as authentically local as haggis suppers and lung cancer."
    • 5/5
      Compared to Brookmyre’s previous books this is more or less straight detective fiction. Except that as this is written by Brookmyre its not really conventional detective fiction. Firstly the two main characters, both detectives, are women and neither of them are the tortured souls that we’ve come to expect from the genre - DI Catherine McLeod still quite fancies her husband, has a great relationship with her kids and more than a couple of glasses of wine are too much for her and Jasmine Sharp isn’t a hard-boiled PI, she’s an aspiring actress working for her uncle.When Jasmine’s Uncle Jim disappears her investigations lead her to Glen Fallan, one of Glasgow’s hard men who died twenty years ago and Catherine is called in to investigate the murder of Jai McDiarmid, ‘first officer of the Fallside Fleet’ you know that its not going to be long before their paths cross. Brookmyre’s trademarks are here, his dark, sometime bleak humour – this is Glasgow, where ‘they don’t do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge’ – and a strongly plotted story, which keeps you guessing, is a real page turner as it has its fair share of twists and turns. But the real joy is in his characterisation of Catherine and Jasmine, they both feel very real and this drives the plot. Fantastic.
    • 5/5
      You hear these rumours, and they can panic a person. "Christopher Brookmyre has gone straight with his latest book." I was twitchy. How could he (either to his readers or to himself)? Surely the man cannot possibly have lost his acute sense of the bizarre, his sly, dry and clever sense of humour. Could he? Of course not. Daft idea. WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED might be a police procedural, crime fiction based book, but it's classic Chris(topher) Brookmyre from the start to the end. How could it not be! Glasgow Policing 101 - as explained to one of the main characters Detective Catherine McLeod, when a rookie cop:'This is Glesca.'... 'Any time you're confused, take a wee minute to remind yourself of that inescapable fact: this is Glesca. We don't do subtle, we don't do nuanced, we don't do conspiracy. We do pish-heid bampot bludgeoning his girlfriend to death in a fit of paranoid rage induced by forty-eight hours straight on the batter. We do coked-up neds jumping on a guy's heid outside a nightclub because he looked at them funny. We do drug-dealing gangster rockets shooting other drug-dealing gangster rockets as comeback for something almost identical a fortnight ago. We do bam-on-bam. We do tit-for-tat, score-settling, feuds, jealousy, petty revenge. We do straightforward. We do obvious. We do cannaemisswhodunit. When you hear hoofbeats on Sauchiehall Street, it's gaunny be a horse, no' a zebra...'.Phew. Brookmyre without a rant ... well ... I'd have to double check that the earth's rotation was still in alignment.But is this good crime fiction? Yes. In a nutshell. It's very good crime fiction. It's a nice, complicated, and very believable plot. It's full of the sorts of cunning and stupidity that you expect from the cops and crooks. There's dedication, there's a bit of the past coming forward to screw with the present, the interlacing of worlds over many generations. There's also more than enough twists and turns, and even a couple of lovely poignant moments. There's some hugely funny moments, there's some poignant ones as well. One of Brookmyre's talents has always been to create very believable, human characters. McLeod is a marvellous combination of a dedicated, clever senior cop with a home life and all the doubts and insecurities that lots of people with rotten jobs have about hanging onto everything they hold dear. Another main character - Jasmine Sharp, niece of a missing ex-cop, private detective - recently bereaved when her mother and sole parent died, Jasmine's a bit of a mess, to put it mildly. She's not the world's greatest trainee private detective, but she gets points for being a very dedicated workmate and friend to her boss. Two excellent female characters, different from each other, but the same in many ways, Brookmyre's also created a supporting cast who work with these two extremely well. Okay there's one scenario that's a bit hard to swallow at the start of the book - but the end of the book explains it all - and besides that, it wasn't until I was well into the action that the lightbulb went off and this reader suddenly went... what the?That's the other thing that works in WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED, as it does in any Brookmyre book. The pace is fantastic. The action rolls on, the people do their thing, the tension rises, the reader loses sleep. There's nothing worse than a panic over where one of your favourite authors is going. Dismiss it from your minds. Chris / Christopher / Mr Brookmyre, whatever he and his publishers want to call him knows how to write books. Very good books. WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED is one of them.
    • 4/5
      A crime novel set in Glasgow, this doesn't pull any punches as it progresses through a tale of gangland Weegie and police corruption. It is a more enjoyable, pacy read than some of Brookmyre's most recent books, though it lacks the humour present in many of his best, particularly Quite Ugly One Morning or the Sacred Art of Stealing. Well worth a read if you're in the market for something entertaining.
    • 4/5
      The first thing to say is that Where the Bodies are Buried is very different in tone from Brookmyre's previous books and it took me a couple of chapters to get into it. However, once I modified my expectations I loved it. This book has less humour and plays less like a movie in my head than previous books. It still has moments of pitch black humour, but also real emotion and tragedy as this time it isn't only the Baddies who suffer.I thoroughly recommend this book to both current Brookmyre fans and those who haven't tried his work before.