Quite Ugly One Morning introduces Brookmyre's signature protagonist, the hard-partying, wisecracking investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, who is not afraid to bend the laws of the land (or even the laws of gravity) to get to the truth.

Jack is exceedingly intrigued by the claims that the solicitor had made and in turn, decides to look into the investigations. I have quite a few physical Christopher Brookmyre books waiting to read but wanted to start with the first of the series. Prepare for a dangerous journey into the dark shadows of our nation’s architecture―where passion, fury, desire, and death collide. As jet-lagged, hungover, and nauseated as he may be, Parlabane knows this was no break-in gone wrong.Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent.

Reading the comments of others though, I am now curious to read the novels, which sound like they are far better than this formulaic excursion into TV-land.He's trapped in Starfire - a video game he played as a child - with no explanation, no backup and, most terrifyingly, no way out. Meanwhile, reporter Jack Parlabane has finally got his career back on track, but his success has left him indebted to a volatile, criminal source. Everything apart from the story, the laughs, the black humour, the political intrigue, the characterisations, the plot, and some semblance of sense. Now they 'pro-actively' did things, but it was still the same bloody things that they were doing when they just plain old did things. He's also got the media taped - by the simple expedient of by-passing them completely and posting real-time coverage of his killings on the internet.