A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away and A Snowball in Hell pit Xavia against international terrorist-for-hire Simon Darcourt. Three of Brookmyre's novels feature the character of counterterrorism officer Angelique de Xavia: A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, The Sacred Art of Stealing, and A Snowball in Hell. Parlabane also appears in Fallen Angel Angelique de Xavia and The Last Day of Christmas with the latter serving as a short prelude to Dead Girl Walking. Parlabane also stars in the short stories Bampot Central, Place B. Novels Jack Parlabane Įight of Brookmyre's novels ( Quite Ugly One Morning, Country of the Blind, Boiling a Frog, Be My Enemy, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, Dead Girl Walking, Black Widow and Want You Gone) centre on the investigative journalist Jack Parlabane. Between April 2008 and December 2015, he was the President of Humanist Society Scotland. Brookmyre is a member of the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, a cover band also comprising crime novelists Mark Billingham, Doug Johnstone, Val McDermid, Stuart Neville and Luca Veste. Marisa Haetzman, an anaesthetist, with whom he has a son, and supports St Mirren F.C., references to Scottish football ('fitba') frequently featuring in his books. Luke's High School, before attending the University of Glasgow.
Biography īrookmyre was born in Glasgow and raised and schooled in Barrhead, attending St. He also writes historical fiction with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning subsequent works have included All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005), Black Widow (2016) and Bedlam (2013), which was written in parallel with the development of a first-person shooter videogame, also called Bedlam. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative.
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