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The Good Death

The Good Death

by NickBrooks (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

Hugh Madden is a mortician who loves his work; indeed he lives to make his 'sleeping charges' beautiful. When the body of Kincaid, his old medical professor turns up on his slab, he finds himself recalling his undergraduate years at Glasgow university - in particular his friendship with a dangerously charismatic medical student, and the disquieting circumstances that eventually took him away from medicine and into the mortuary. Trapped for forty years in an unsatisfactory marriage to a hypochondriac wife, Madden's carefully ordered life is thrown further into chaos when he sacks his wife's carer, and her son decides she needs 'compensation'. With the threat of violence hanging over him, the sudden reappearance of Kincaid, and the discovery of a body in a nearby Loch, Madden finds the long-buried secrets from his past beginning to resurface, and his own dissatisfaction with the present threatens to turn murderous.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 03 May 2007
ISBN 10: 0753821974
ISBN 13: 9780753821978
Book Overview: 'Six Feet Under' meets 'The Talented Mr Ripley' A young, Scottish author with a prize-winning future ahead of him Praise for The Good Death: 'Brooks' humour is as sharp as one of Kay Scarpetta's scalpels, it slices through a tale that is sometimes disgusting, but always absorbing -- a quirky original novel that shows crime fiction can escape procedural bondage' Louise Welsh 'A host of finely crafted characters...The characters are well rounded and thoroughly engaging, the evocation of time and place is excellent, and there are plenty of vivid and intriguing scenes' The Herald Praise for My Name is Denise Forrester: 'Loads of assurance, buckets of colour, packed with beautifully etched observation and piles of raw honesty - this is a debut novel that keeps you wide-eyed with admiration...this rollicking, unsentimental tale is a great downpayment on Brooks's career. I loved its bravura, its infiltration of the characters' drives and foibles. A compact gem' Scotsman

Media Reviews
A dank, distorted take on the crime genre with a pleasantly nasty after-taste -- Colin Waters Sunday Herald
Author Bio
Nick Brooks was born and still lives in Glasgow. He graduated from the University of Glasgow, where he has recently completed its postgraduate degree in Creative Writing.