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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.

Awards: Bloody Scotland (2024), CWA (2020), Theakston (2017), Wodehouse (2006) see all

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

May 2026

Quite Ugly One Evening
(Jack Parlabane, book 9)

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
   9. Quite Ugly One Evening (2026)

Angelique De Xavier
   1. A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away (2001)
   2. The Sacred Art of Stealing (2002)
   3. A Snowball in Hell (2008)

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

Novels

   Not the End of the World (1998)
   One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night (1999)
   All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (2004)
   A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil (2006)
   Pandaemonium (2009)
   Bedlam (2013)
   Places in the Darkness (2017)
   Fallen Angel (2019)
   The Cut (2020)
   The Cliff House (2022)
   The Cracked Mirror (2024)

Collections

   Crimespotting (2009) (with others)
   Jaggy Splinters (2012)
   24 Stories of Hope (2018) (with others)

Books containing stories by Chris Brookmyre

Bloody Scotland (2017)
New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers
edited by
James Crawford

Story Behind the Book : Volume 5 (2015)
(Story Behind the Book, book 5)
edited by
Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner

The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 8 (2011)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski

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Awards

	2024 McIlvanney Prize : The Cracked Mirror
	2020 CWA Dagger in the Library
	2017 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year : Black Widow
	2016 McIlvanney Prize : Black Widow
	2006 Wodehouse Prize : All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

Award nominations

	2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Cracked Mirror
	2025 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (longlist) : The Cracked Mirror
	2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Cliff House
	2023 CrimeFest: eDunnit Award (nominee) : The Cliff House
	2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Cut
	2021 McIlvanney Prize (nominee) : The Cut
	2020 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : Fallen Angel
	2019 McIlvanney Prize (nominee) : Fallen Angel
	2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : Want You Gone
	2018 McIlvanney Prize (nominee) : Places in the Darkness
	2018 CrimeFest: eDunnit Award (nominee) : Want You Gone
	2017 McIlvanney Prize (nominee) : Want You Gone
	2016 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist) : Black Widow
	2015 McIlvanney Prize (nominee) : Dead Girl Walking
	2014 McIlvanney Prize (nominee) : Flesh Wounds
	2012 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : Where the Bodies are Buried
	2009 Wodehouse Prize (nominee) : A Snowball in Hell
	2009 CrimeFest: Last Laugh Award (nominee) : A Snowball in Hell
	2008 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
	2007 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
	2004 CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	2003 CWA Dagger in the Library (commended)

Chris Brookmyre recommends

Witch Trial (2026)
Harriet Tyce
"Tyce creates a swirling miasma of meaning and counter-meaning that keeps the reader enthralled and tantalised by horrific possibilities, and in its audacious final act, revealing layer beneath confounding layer, Witch Trial pays fitting tribute to the James Hogg classic that inspired it."

A Particularly Nasty Case (2025)
Adam Kay
"Multilayered, deeply compassionate, righteously angry and uproariously funny - absolutely brilliant."

The Art of a Lie (2025)
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
"A beguiling and mouth-watering game of cat-and-mouse, where Dangerous Liaisons meets Chocolat."

The Retirement Plan (2025)
Sue Hincenbergs
"Relentlessly and rambunctiously entertaining. A feel-good crime caper that could put a smile on the face of any hitman."

The Midnight King (2025)
Tariq Ashkanani
"Lean, taught, gripping and bloody."

The Margaret Code (2025)
Richard Hooton
"An absorbingly unusual murder mystery."

Paperboy (2025)
(Ally McCoist, book 2)
Callum McSorley
"McSorley consolidates his status among crime fiction's rising stars. Paperboy is energetic, inventive and witty, laying on the tension as it builds to a nerve-shredding finale."

The Other People (2025)
C B Everett
"A labyrinthine fever dream with hidden depths and an irresistible sense of fun."

Five by Five (2024)
Claire Wilson
"A significant crime debut. Authoritatively authentic, irresistibly pacey and nerve-shreddingly tense."

Only Here, Only Now (2024)
Tom Newlands
"A breathtaking debut from an exciting new storytelling talent. Wise, funny, tragic and hopeful. Cora and her world are heart-rendingly authentic."

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."

You Never Said Goodbye (2022)
Luca Veste
"A truly pulse-pounding thriller. The relentless tension is leavened only by its heart-rending emotion."

Whatever Gets You Through the Night (2022)
Charlie Higson
"A hugely enjoyable sun-soaked thriller: hard-edged but warm, tense but funny, vividly ultra-modern and yet deliciously old-fashioned."

The Second Cut (2022)
(Rilke, book 2)
Louise Welsh
"Richly layered, gloriously carnal, bursting with patter and irresistibly seductive."

The House of Ashes (2021)
Stuart Neville
"oulful, lyrical, elegiac and utterly terrifying . . . You can buy this book, but it will own you."

1979 (2021)
(Allie Burns, book 1)
Val McDermid
"Absolutely fantastic. I have been reading Val McDermid for twenty-five years, so I am really saying something when I tell you I enjoyed this novel the most."

Under the Blue (2021)
Oana Aristide
"Chillingly evocative and relentlessly unsettling. A compelling battle for humanity's survival fought simultaneously on both the physical and intellectual fronts."

The Stranger Times (2021)
(Stranger Times, book 1)
C K McDonnell
"I tore through The Stranger Times. Like an entertaining collision between the worlds of Mick Herron and Charlie Stross, it is novel that proves ancient eldritch horror is no match for old-school journalism."

Finders, Keepers (2020)
Sabine Durrant
"A seductive descent into paranoia and claustrophobia that coils around you like a snake and squeezes until you are breathless."

Hyde (2020)
Craig Russell
"Gloriously diabolical. A terrifying thrill ride through the hidden chasms of the human soul."

City of Windows (2019)
(Dr. Lucas Page, book 1)
Robert Pobi
"Relevant, smart and action-packed, CITY OF WINDOWS is The Day of the Jackal for Trump's America."

The Ruin (2018)
(Cormac Reilly, book 1)
Dervla McTiernan
"THE RUIN is as convincing as it is multi-layered, as compelling as it is complex . . . Dervla is a future star of the genre."

Tombstoning (2006)
Doug Johnstone
"Seductive and thrilling."

Twelve Step Fandango (2003)
(Martin Brock, book 1)
Chris Haslam
"As vivid and convincing as I've read. No one can be trusted... the only certainty is betrayal."

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