Author of 24 crime and sci-fi novels, including Quite Ugly One Morning, All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye and Black Widow, which won the 2016 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and was named the 2017 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry, he has collaborated with his wife Marisa Haetzman to produce the historical crime novels The Way of All Flesh and The Art of Dying which depicts life at the cutting edge of Edinburgh medicine in the 19th century. www.brookmyre.co.uk