by Chris Brookmyre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349143224
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«Fallen Angel» is the psychological thriller by Chris Brookmyre, published by Abacus in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Amanda, the new nanny, sees the Temples as the perfect family: a former actress, a famous professor and three successful adult children. But beneath the smiles lie dark emotions: sixteen years earlier, little Niamh died in Portugal. At the villa by the sea, Amanda suspects one of them is hiding something terrible; suspicion is dangerous.
Published in 2020, it was nominated for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime 2019 and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2020.
For those seeking psychological suspense novels with family secrets and twists.
Christopher Brookmyre is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning; subsequent works have included All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005), Black Widow (2016) and Bedlam (2013), which was written in parallel with the development of a first-person shooter videogame, also called Bedlam. He also writes historical fiction with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry.
