A review by guiltyfeat
Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre

3.0

Put off reading this for a while as the last one was denser than it needed to be. This was also a massively overwritten shaggy dog story that took way too long to get going. For most of the book our hero is a fool who’s walked into a trap, ended up in pokey with no real idea of what is happening. In the last 50 pages, he finally works it out and with the help of a ridiculous number of other people he holds the baddie at gunpoint and gets him to confess.

It’s not terribly slick, it’s around 150 pages too long, there’s an unpleasant whiff of homophobia about the whole thing and Parlabane’s a bit of a prat. Not sure I’ll bother with another.