A robbery in Scotland might not seem like an unusual background for a crime novel―until it’s put into the hands of one of the U.K.’s leading satirists, Christopher Brookmyre. Now available for the first time in the U.S., The Sacred Art of Stealing is narrative catnip for fans of crime fiction laced with dark humor/5(3). · Christopher Brookmyre is not your typical mystery novelist or even a typical writer. With The Sacred Art of Stealing he cements his reputation as a novelist who can skewer societal holy cows with barbs of sarcasm, create characters so real that you can see them in front of your eyes as they talk (and even hear the sound of their voice), and write plots original and bltadwin.ru: Richard Marcus. · Synopsis. The second book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is bltadwin.ru:
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The Sacred Art of Stealing is a satirical crime novel by the Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre. It is the author's seventh book and is a stand-alone sequel to A Big Boy did it and Ran Away. The book is a tale of the unusual romance between likable thief, half Scottish half Mexican, Zal Innez and D.I. Angelique de Xavia, the police officer whose job it is to catch him. The Sacred Art of Stealing, is the next in the Angelique De Xavier series and is every bit as good as the first one, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away. It opens with a most original and imaginative bank heist: a Situationist, Dadaist type robbery which soon involves Angelique, dragged away from a Rangers game, and soon abseiling into a developing hostage situation. A robbery in Scotland might not seem like an unusual background for a crime novel―until it’s put into the hands of one of the U.K.’s leading satirists, Christopher Brookmyre. Now available for the first time in the U.S., The Sacred Art of Stealing is narrative catnip for fans of crime fiction laced with dark humor.
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