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Pam
Mar 21, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction, scotland
06/12/08
TITLE/AUTHOR: COMPLICITY by Iain Banks
RATING: 4/B
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Fiction/1993/313 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: Stand Alone
TIME/PLACE: 1990's/Scotland
CHARACTERS: Cameron Colley/newspaper journalist
FIRST LINES: You hear the car after an hour & a half.

COMMENTS: 03/20 rec as a bookcrossing ring/ray. A "1001" must read book. Told in alternate voices -- Cameron a quirky journalist and then from the serial killer's perspective.
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Astrid Lim
Ok, maybe because I read this book not long after I read the Tinker-Tailor, the tone is so familiar- even though the theme is a bit different (this is about serial killers instead of spy), but the twist and setting feels the same. I don't really like the S&M details about the murders though.. and for me the ending is a bit stale. I don't know. Just not in the mood. ...more
Neil
Apr 15, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: contemporary
Fee
Sep 02, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: scottish
Isabel
Jun 15, 2009 rated it liked it
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Nov 19, 2009 rated it liked it
Tanya
Jul 08, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: list-1001-btrbyd
Rebekah
Jan 05, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 1001-import, e-book
mstan
Aug 01, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: british
Terri
Jun 27, 2018 marked it as boxall-s-1001
Charlene Oleah
Feb 25, 2021 marked it as to-read
Claire Fun
Jun 22, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Phoebe
Mar 28, 2023 marked it as to-read
Shelves: on-shelf, list
Dana Arbelaez
Aug 07, 2024 marked it as to-read