The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay
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"Great fun and daft as monkeys" -- Stuart MacBride, #1 bestselling author of Birthdays For The Dead
Barney Thomson -- awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber -- 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 Thomson's 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 killer …
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