Bøger af Jim Murray

"Over 4,000 whiskeys tasted, evaluated and rated"--Cover.

A book skirting the area of profund suffering and dealing with the interior world of the psychotic and other struggles with reality.

Dominic blames his brother, Spencer, for bringing ruin to their childhood home. He saw his baby brother as a malign force that provoked their parents to conflict and bitterness. Only once in their childhood did the brothers nearly reconcile, and that was when Spencer defended Dominic from the school bully, Lar Mangan. As the brothers grow to adulthood, Dominic's path again converges with Lar Mangan when he joins a new company and discovers that Mangan - by now an ex-convict - is working and prospering there under a false identity. Dominic has become the possessor of a deadly secret, and as the brothers stoke up their feud, they are wary only of each other and have no sense of Mangan's sinister schemes. They face a choice - to allow a lethal trap to close or to choose their bond over their feud - salvation over blame - and come together to defeat Lar Mangan.

"A tale of bad versus evil - a psychological thriller that pits the sociopathic ex-detective Burke against a brilliant and ruthless serial killer. Will Burke be able to bring him down? And what price will he have to pay?" Double Ugly, the first volume in a new series, is riveting and mind boggling, entertaining yet very disturbing. And, indeed, is destined to become a classic for noir fiction lovers! Anita Lock. San Francisco Book Review. DOUBLE UGLY is a lively mystery with an intriguing lead character and some interesting speculation on the purpose of ethics, morality and ambition. IndieReader Review. Double Ugly by Jim Murray is captivating. It is a very well-written, fast moving crime novel. Jim Murray's narrative is dense, with many interesting unpredictable twists, and the plot's intrigue is well constructed. Murray's writing style makes it a great read for noir fiction fans! Galina Roizman. Portland Book Review. I found the author's writing style unique, even hard to describe, a bit quirky, dark. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed "Double Ugly" and highly recommend it to anyone with a taste for a suspenseful mystery/thriller lined with a unique twist. Sheri Bebee. Reader Views Review. After fifteen dispiriting years in the force, Detective Burke suffers a catastrophe that causes him to have a heart attack and leads ultimately to a heart transplant. His police career in ruins, he invests in a restaurant, and by using his surveillance skills he gets honest feedback on the food and the service and elevates the restaurant to be the finest in Dublin. When he eavesdrops on a party of criminals he learns something that connects his recent calamity to the stirrings of his transplanted heart. As he is launched on the trail of a psychopathic killer, he learns of the killer's victims, and confirms that he is in fact an urn to one of them. Only by ridding the world of this murderer can he do the right thing by his heart, and be finally free of his bitter regrets.

Thanks to industry guru Jim Murray and his internationally acclaimed annual Whiskey Bible, the Japanese are now running out of their own single malt and people have fought in Toronto liquor stores to grab the last bottle of his World Whisky of the Year. Rye, Irish Pot Still, and Bourbon have all seen a massive resurgence in recent years not least thanks to the visionary campaigning of the world's first-ever full time professional whisky writer. Murray has tasted nearly 20,000 different whiskies for the Whiskey Bible since it first hit the shelves in 2003. For this 2022 edition, he reflects on over another 1,200. The 4,700 whiskies included in this 2022 edition range from Scottish Single malts to Australian; from Canadian to Austrian. The whiskies from over 30 different countries are included and evaluated in his forthright, honest, amusing, fiercely independent, and non-pretentious style.

There's a storm brewing in Drowntown, with Gina and Noiret at its heart... 'Flooded civilisations have long been a staple of post-apocalyptic fiction... Few have executed their dystopian vision with quite as much panache as Robbie Morrison and Jim Murray do here' SFX

Jim Murray, the dean of American sportswriters, entertained readers with writing that is so good and so funny that even people who don't like sports read him. The Jim Murray Reader gathers some of Murray's best columns from the height of his career and showcases the wit and the style that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1990.