“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Best Things In Life Are Free … Books

This week’s super soaraway freebie thingy comes courtesy of the generous folk at Brandon Books, who have given us three copies of Paul Charles’ latest, THE BEAUTIFUL SOUND OF SILENCE, to pass on to you. Yes, YOU! First, the blurb elves:
In the ninth DI Christy Kennedy mystery, Kennedy investigates the murder of a colleague whose ‘the ends justify the means’ work ethic created numerous enemies. An annual Halloween Bonfire goes horribly wrong when a body is spotted in the middle of the fire’s glowing timbers. Identifiable only through his dental records, the victim is retired police Superintendent David Peters, an ex-colleague of DI Christy Kennedy. As Kennedy and his team settle down to a painstaking search through Peters’ cases, they soon discover that for the superintendent the means justified the end in solving them, and each case they review throws up another suspect.
  Coolio. To be in with a chance of winning a copy, just answer the following question.
Was Paul Charles’ last book, THE DUST OF DEATH, set in:
(a) London;
(b) Dublin;
(c) Donegal;
(d) Oh for pity’s sake, just give me a blummin’ free book for once!
  Answers via the comment box, please, leaving a contact email address (using (at) rather than @ to confused the spam-munchkins), by noon on Tuesday, October 7. Et bon chance, mes amis

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Was Paul Charles’ last book, THE DUST OF DEATH, set in:

(d) Oh for pity’s sake, just give me a blummin’ free book for once!

rawsonkeith (at) gmail dot com

Gerard Brennan said...

Well, after reading The Dust of Death I know the correct answer here. But I've got a copy of this latest Kennedy mystery already, so I'll keep it to myself.

You might find the answer if you search through my reviews over at CSNI, though.

gb

Anonymous said...

I too vote for (d).

cheers!
Katherine.

katherine (at) katherinehowell.com

adrian mckinty said...

"Annual Halloween bonfire goes horribly wrong."

Is Ireland the only place in the world that does Halloween bonfires? They dont in America. In England they do Nov 5, bless 'em. Nowhere does the old pagan thing like the celts.

Unknown said...

It depends on where you live, Adrian. Detroit has hell night (I don't know if arson necessarily qualifies as a bonfire?)and out here in AZ nearly every Halloween party I've been to (That is when we don't have fire restrictions due to a lack of wet weather.)has included a bonfire.

Anonymous said...

I gotta answer d. For pity's sake just give me a blummin free book. has to be the best answer option I've ever come across.

*begin sob story to move the heart of the esteemed adjudicator* .. I am but a poor penniless mature age student living in semi-penury in possibly one of the furthest flung corners of the world entered in this competition.*end sob story* I live in Tasmmania. Will that do?

OH and Hi Katherine. Fancy seeing you here.

Anonymous said...

Bugga. Just when you think you've been marginally entertaining and have as good a chance as any, you go and do something stupid like forgetting to turn off the anonymous off. Anyway here I am not so anonymous.

OH and I do know how to spell Tasmania. My brain is fried tonight. Spent 3 hours in class today doing course work, saving as I went and at the end when I did the final save, the computer did a major dummy spit and corrupted the file and I lost the lot.

email address

sunniefromoz
at
gmail.

com

There that'll fix those spammers.

Unknown said...

lol.
I must go for (d) since it´s the funniest answer to the question.