The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson: a novel
β Scribed by Douglas Lindsay
- Publisher
- Blasted Heath Ltd
- Year
- 2011;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1908688068
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β¦ Synopsis
Barney Thomson β awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber β lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty-year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next. However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomsonβs uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killerβ¦
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