The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay

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Douglas Lindsay's classic comic crime thriller is free on Kindle over 5th and 6th May
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"This chilling black comedy unfolds at dizzying speed...an impressive debut novel." Sunday Mirror

"Gleefully macabre, hugely enjoyable black burlesque." The Scotsman

"The plot is a modern spin on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. The bloody ending is pure Reservoir Dogs." The Mirror

"Pitch-black comedy spun from the finest writing. Fantastic plot, unforgettable scenes and plenty of twisted belly laughs." New Woman

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…

About the author:

Douglas Lindsay is the author of the Barney Thomson crime series, which begins with THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON, and is currently seven novels and a novella (THE END OF DAYS) strong. His most recent novel is the police thriller THE UNBURIED DEAD.

Allan Guthrie
Co-founder, Blasted Heath, publisher of the Barney Thomson series