Black Widow - Christopher Brookmyre

Kindle Edition Cost: Netgalley Publisher: Grove Atlantic Published: 28/01/16 Amazon uk link: Here Goodreads Link: Here

The Blurb

There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder.

Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing.

Then she meets Peter. He's kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past: the second chance she's been waiting for.

Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident, a nightmare end to their fairytale romance.

But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairytales, and tasks maverick reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling Black Widow...

My Thoughts

This is the first book by Chris Brookmyre that I have read and to be perfectly honest I fell in love. For the first time in my life I have managed to fall in love with a character from a book.

Like Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly in Weird Science I wish I could bring Diana Jager to life. Yes my 17 readers, you really did read that. I think my wife and Kids may object, so I will have to keep her in the shed or something but that’s just details. We can work that out.

I loved this book. Everything about it, the way it was told, the characters, the plot and, my god the ending made me swear and throw the Kindle across the room in delight.

The book is told from various sides, but mainly through Diana Jager and Jack Parlabane. It begins with a court case and works backwards peeling back layer upon layer of lies, love and intrigue until it reaches an ending that I’m struggling to think of any better.

I now need to raid the housekeeping money to buy the other 6 in the series, leave the kids some co-co pops and milk, shut myself away and read them back to back.

It’s so much better than 5* this is the perfect thriller.

I’m off for a lie down.