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Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas - A Partridge in a Pear Tree

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Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas - A Partridge in a Pear Tree

By: Stuart MacBride
Narrated by: Ian Hanmore
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First story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season

Billy Partridge wasn’t really cut out to be a cat burglar, but it was ‘do the job, or come up with thirteen grand by Thursday, or have both legs shattered’.

‘Do the job’ seemed the least worst option. But he’s about to find out just how bad the least worst option can be…

©2011 Stuart MacBride (P)2011 HarperCollins
Anthologies & Short Stories Dark humor Fiction Hard-Boiled Short Stories Suspense Mystery Comedy Winter
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Praise for Stuart MacBride:

‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order’
Mark Billingham

‘Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field’
Independent

‘Admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven – or should that be hell?’
Express

‘Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best’
Val McDermid

‘Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride’s novels are a real treat’
Simon Kernick

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Bad ending

What would have made Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas - A Partridge in a Pear Tree better?

A better ending.

Would you ever listen to anything by Stuart MacBride again?

The collection was a bit choppy. If the next was less choppy and easier in some places to follow it would be better. Since my wife is from Glasgow the accent and the ideas were good but I think the presentation of the plot needed help.

Which scene was your favorite?

Pear Tree. First chapter.

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