Book description
The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, contemplation, candid discussion and even prayer - not to mention booze, drugs, clandestine liaisons and as…
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I love every little bit of everything Christopher Brookmyre does.
This is possibly my favourite of his novels. Distinctly Scottish and absolutely hilarious. It is like he took a chaotic American horror movie and planted it firmly in Scotland. The characters shouldn’t work, but their profanity-riddled dialogue has a genuine feel that makes the satire cut even deeper.
It is a gory, funny, theological debate that is everything I want in my fantasy.
From Magnus' list on books where the strange bleeds through to the everyday.
Christopher Brookmyre writes some truly entertaining crime capers with a good bite of social commentary, but things go seriously off the rails in Pandaemonium. A religion-heavy Scottish Highland retreat for high school students who have lost a fellow pupil to murder is already fraught with secret parties and hookups, but when a nearby military base has a small mishap involving unleashing the forces of hell, things get really interesting. And weird. And very much fun for the reader, if not for the characters.
From Kim's list on UK urban fantasy that aren’t set in London.
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