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Charles Reasoner lives in Woodinville, Washington with his wife and four children. He has written several children's books including Number Munch!, Color Crunch!, and the popular and successful Sliding Surprise series.copyright 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved. Charles Reasoner lives in Woodinville, Washington with his wife and four children. He has written several children's books including Number Munch!, Color Crunch!, and the popular and successful Sliding Surprise series.copyright 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.
' Brooks' humour is as sharp as one of Kay Scarpetta's scalpels, it slices through a tale that is sometimes disgusting, occasionally bewildering but always absorbing a quirky original novel that shows crime fiction can escape procedural bondage.' -- Louise Welsh 'Brooks [has]...a great ear for dialogue and some superb characterisation...The characters are well rounded and thoroughly engaging, the evocation of time and place is excellent, and there are plenty of vivid and intriguing scenes.' -- Doug Johnstone THE HERALD (24.6.06) 'An intriguing read.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1.7.06) 'Brooks has a good eye for dialogue...and his dips into the mind of the man known to his friends as Madman make this a cracking good read.' MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS (1.7.06) 'his descriptions of a past Glasgow [is] both vivid and funny.' BIG ISSUE IN SCOTLAND (22.6.07) 'Brooks is an accomplished an inventive writer...the moments such as the one when the senior mortician expounds on his trade to Madden, the new apprentice, moving with seamless passion from the refinements of Samurai swords to those of the scalpels in his box of tricks; ... capture Brooks at his quirky best.' -- Jennie Renton SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS and SUNDAY HERALD (6.8.06 'A disturbing look at the mortuary business, focusing on ageing mortician Hugh Madden, who has an unhealthy obsession with his work.' -- Henry Sutton DAILY MIRROR (18.8.06) ****
