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Chris Brookmyre


(Christopher Brookmyre)
Scotland (b.1968)

aka Ambrose Parry

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full time novelist with the publication of Quite Ugly One Morning. Since writing A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away, he and his family decided to move away from Aberdeen and now live near Glasgow.
 

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Jack Parlabane
   1. Quite Ugly One Morning (1996)
   2. Country of the Blind (1997)
   3. Boiling A Frog (2000)
   4. Be My Enemy (2003)
   5. Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks (2007)
   5.5. The Last Day of Christmas (2014)
   6. Dead Girl Walking (2015)
   7. Black Widow (2016)
   8. Want You Gone (2017)

     aka The Last Hack

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Jasmine Sharp
   1. Where the Bodies are Buried (2011)
   2. When the Devil Drives (2012)
   3. Flesh Wounds (2013)

     aka Bred in the Bone

   Siege Mentality (2017)
     aka The Last Siege of Bothwell Castle
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Novels
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Collections
   Crimespotting (2009) (with others)
   Jaggy Splinters (2012)
   24 Stories of Hope (2018) (with others)
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Chris Brookmyre recommends
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Squeaky Clean (2023)
Callum McSorley
"A manic tale of blood and suds told with laconic humour and warmly engaging characterisation. Callum McSorley is definitely a talent to watch. I knew within a page that I was in good hands."
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The Homes (2022)
J B Mylet
"Tense yet tender, as moving as it is gripping... set to be one of the Scottish crime books of the year. I loved it."
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You Never Said Goodbye (2022)
Luca Veste
"A truly pulse-pounding thriller. The relentless tension is leavened only by its heart-rending emotion."

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Anthologies containing stories by Chris Brookmyre
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Bloody Scotland (2017)
New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers
edited by
James Crawford
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The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 8 (2011)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski
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The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 (2011)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski

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Awards
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel winner (2006) : All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2009) : A Snowball in Hell
Dagger Awards Best Book nominee (2016) : Black Widow
McIlvanney Prize Best Novel winner (2016) : Black Widow
McIlvanney Prize Best Novel nominee (2017) : Want You Gone
McIlvanney Prize Best Novel nominee (2018) : Places in the Darkness


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