East Markham Book Club
Twelve Days of Winter
by Stuart MacBride
by Stuart MacBride
A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season – from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Twelve days, twelve stories.
Meet Fat Billy Partridge, possibly the worst cat-burglar ever; newbie drug-dealer Brian, who probably shouldn’t be taking advantage of the job’s fringe benefits; Philippe, a chef with anger-management issues and lots of very sharp knives; Mr Unwin, the undertaker with the golden touch; and Lord Peter Forsyth-Leven, MSP, learning the hard way that having it all means you’ve got so much more to lose…
Thieves, drug dealers, lap-dancers, gangsters and even the odd good guy populate these twelve interlinked tales of crime and retribution set around the festive season.
Next Meeting Sunday 17th December 2023 at 7.30pm
Club Opinion
Twelve Days of Winter, the read for December is a collection of short stories with overlapping characters and events. It was agreed that Stuart MacBride is an easy author to read, and this was a quick book to get through. It was perhaps a little on the gory side for some, but perhaps worth a look at his other books to see how they fare. We gave it three stars (out of five).
