Christopher Brookmyre

Ambrose Parry is a collaboration between bestselling author Christopher Brookmyre and Medical Historian Marisa Haetzman. We're thrilled to launch Falkirk Storytelling Festival's 2018 adult programme with this event celebrating their first historical mystery, The Way of All Flesh, set in Edinburgh, 1847 – a city of medicine, money and murder.

About the authors
Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland.

Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of twenty-one novels, including Black Widow, winner of both the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year.

Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience in the NHS with a Master’s degree in the History of Medicine.

About The Way of All Flesh
Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson’s patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city.

His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the new medical frontier of anaesthesia. It is here that Raven meets housemaid Sarah Fisher, who recognises trouble when she sees it and takes an immediate dislike to him. She has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges, in particular his medical education.

With each having their own motive to look deeper into these deaths, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest shadows of Edinburgh’s underworld, where they will have to overcome their differences if they are to make it out alive. (OwenRochester)… (més)

Fabulous, funny Chris Brookmyre is back to talk about Want You Gone and Places in the Darkness! In the former, Jack Parlabane and a hacker known as Buzzkill must pull off an impossible heist, or lose everything they love most. Places in the Darkness, set on the first colony ship in outer space, introduces irreverent, irresistible sleuth Nikki Fixx, who never met a rule she wouldn’t break. Chris’s novel Black Widow, won 2016’s McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year, and 2017’s Theakston Crime Novel of the Year. He sold out at 2017’s Granite Noir — don’t miss your chance to see him in 2018. (OwenRochester)… (més)

Christopher Brookmyre

Join us as we welcome critically acclaimed crime author, Christopher Brookmyre. Christopher's literary career has spanned many years and his novels remain as popular today as ever. At this special event, Christopher will talk about what inspired him to become a writer, his books to date and his most recent publications – 'Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks' and 'A Snowball in Hell'. (antisyzygy)… (més)