Christopher Brookmyre
(born September 1968 -) - Glasgow
Football, religion, a dark and sometimes violent sense of humour are the hallmarks of Christopher Brookmyre’s novels. Born and educated in Glasgow, Brookmyre has worked for the film magazine Screen International, and as sub-editor for The Scotsman and the Edinburgh Evening News.
His first novel, the satirical Quite Ugly One Morning (1996) won the inaugural Critics' First Blood Award (for Best First Crime Novel of the Year) and was the first in a series of novels featuring investigative journalist Jack Parlabane. Parlabane also featured in Boiling a Frog (2000), which won the 2000 Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective. His forthcoming novel is Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Key Titles
- Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Jack Parlabane is dead. Or is he? In an unlikely twist of the democratic process, he had been elected Rector of Glasgow's Kelvin University, taking over the post from the celebrity para-psychologist Gabrielle Lafayette. - Be My Enemy
Journalist Jack Parlabane has been invited to a 'team-building' weekend in the Highlands for lawyers, advertising execs and businessmen. There are stalkers in the forest, power cuts in the night and mass mobile phone thefts. But, when the first body is found, things begin to get a little more serious. - A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
When they were students, Ray and Simon had dreams about becoming rock stars. Now in their mid-thirties they have to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Everyone needs to find a way of coping and for Simon it's serial murder. - Boiling A Frog
This new thriller and political satire featuring Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist, contains a lot of body fluids, the Establishment at its most corrupt, relatively few dead bodies and a display of black humour. - Country Of The Blind
A media mogul is murdered in his country mansion, apparently by a gang of would-be thieves. But, back in Edinburgh, a solicitor reveals to the press that one of the subjects had left a letter with her some time before which proves his innocence. - One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night
Gavin's idea for a unique holiday experience involves a disused North Sea oil platform and facilities that would take your breath away. He invites old school chums along to test it but unfortunately a group of terrorists come along too! - Quite Ugly One Morning
A debut novel from Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre, this thriller exposes the horrific possibilities of corruption within the reformed National Health Service. - A Tale Etched In Blood And Hard Black Pencil
Does knowing someone since childhood enable one to know who is capable of killing in adulthood? Or is there some nugget in their shared experience which explains the murder scene in the hills outside Glasgow?
Bibliography
- Quite Ugly One Morning - 1996
- Country of the Blind - 1997
- Not the End of the World - 1998
- One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night - 1999
- Boiling a Frog - 2000
- A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away - 2001
- The Sacred Art of Stealing - 2002
- Be My Enemy - 2004
- All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - 2005
- A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil - 2006
- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks - 2007