Chris Brookmyre – The Cracked Mirror

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It's over 25 years since multi-award-winning Sunday Times bestseller Chris Brookmyre’s first book, Quite Ugly One Morning, was published. Since then, he has established himself as one of the most popular crime writers in the UK. His enthusiasm for hurling himself into ex-curricular activities such as the Scotland v England Writers football, the Caledonian Challenge, Channel 5 Egg Heads, the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers (including appearances at Glastonbury), BBC Question Time and a live celebrity Mastermind with Clive Myrie (specialist subject Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is well known and means he has more to talk about than most. In a previous life Chris worked for Screen International which involved frequent trips to Los Angeles. A TV adaptation of The Cut, which also centres on the film industry, is in development with production company Highland Midge and Chris and his wife Marisa are currently writing the scripts. It was also recently longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

Marisa Haetzman Chair

Marisa Haetzman worked as a consultant anaesthetist, her career taking her to London, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow before stepping down to study for a Masters degree in the History of Medicine. Her dissertation research into the early use of chloroform led to her collaborating with Chris Brookmyre, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry, to write crime fiction set in the world of Nineteenth Century Edinburgh medicine. The couple’s first three novels were all shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize, with A Corruption of Blood also shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger. Marisa Haetzman has also collaborated in adapting both the Ambrose Parry novels and Chris Brookmyre’s The Cut for television.