Christopher Brookmyre
Author
Books
Film, TV & Theatre
Books
Christopher Brookmyre lives in Glasgow with his wife and son Jack. He is the winner of the 2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for writing, and his novel All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye won the 2006 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Fiction. He is author of 18 published novels to-date.
Latest publication:
DEAD GIRL WALKING, Little, Brown, 2015
Fiction
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2013 Little, Brown | Enter the world of a video game in Christopher Brookmyre's BEDLAM. This is white-knuckle action, sprawling adventure, merciless satire and outrageous humour like you've never experienced. |
2013 Little, Brown | As one battles her demons and the other chases her ghosts, two very different detectives confront the secrets that have entangled both of their fates since before they were even born. How far would you go to protect the people you love? Would you take a fall? Would you take a bullet? Would you take a life? This is Chris Brookmyre's darkest and most complex book yet. |
2012 Little, Brown | The much anticipated follow up to Where the Bodies are Buried - the hugely successful new crime series from Chris Brookmyre Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way. What begins as a simple search awakens a malevolence that has lain dormant for three decades, putting Jasmine in the crosshairs of those who would stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. |
2011 Little, Brown | A move into the mainstream of British crime fiction. Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller |
2010 Little, Brown | A terrifying journey to the boundaries of knowledge and imagination that will trouble your thought long after you have raced tot he final, bloody-spattered page. |
2009 Little, Brown | If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show... |
2012 Little, Brown | The much anticipated follow up to Where the Bodies are Buried. When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way. What begins as a simple search awakens a malevolence that has lain dormant for three decades, putting Jasmine in the crosshairs of those who would stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. |
2008 Little, Brown | Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some conscious form after we die, and is that form capable of communicating with the world of the living?...Aye, right. |
2007 Little, Brown | Put on your uniform and line up in an orderly fashion for the funniest and most accurate trip back to the classroom you are likely to read, as well as a murder mystery like nothing that has gone before it. |
2005 Little, Brown | Jane Fleming, forty-six and three years a grandmother, has always played by the rules, never hurt anybody, never lied, never even had a parking ticket. But she’s about to put all that right in a very big way… |
2003 Little, Brown | Honesty is a virtue. Deceit is a talent. Theft is an art form. |
2003 Little, Brown | Real Life™ blows. Just ask Raymond Ash. As a student, he and his friend Simon thought their futures would be paved with gold discs, gigs and groupies. Instead he’s found himself in his thirties, a nervous new father and an even more nervous new English teacher, facing the fact that responsibility has no escape key. |
2002 Little, Brown | Part political satire, part cliff-hanging thriller this is high calibre entertainment. |
2000 Little, Brown | The occasion: high school reunion. The place: an oil rig converted into a tourist resort. The outcome: carnage. |
1999 Little, Brown | The crew of an oceanic research vessel goes missing in the Pacific along with their mini-submarine. |
1998 Little, Brown | Jack Parlabane returns to investigate the apparently open-and-shut case of a murdered billionaire, accurately figuring that a right-wing media baron had more to fear from his political allies than from the four burglars caught red-handed at the scene. |
1997 Little, Brown | A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, this is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited. |