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Christopher Brookmyre

Born

in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

September 06, 1968

Website

http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

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Christopher Brookmyre is a Scottish novelist whose novels mix politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning, and subsequent works have included One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, which he said "was just the sort of book he needed to write before he turned 30", and All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005).
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Christopher Brookmyre’s books

Average rating: 4.05 · 72,578 ratings · 4,754 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	Quite Ugly One Morning (Jack Parlabane, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 8,796 ratings — published 1996 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 4.06 avg rating — 5,163 ratings — published 2001 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night 4.15 avg rating — 4,905 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Widow (Jack Parlabane, #7) 4.15 avg rating — 4,327 ratings — published 2016 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sacred Art of Stealing 4.30 avg rating — 3,916 ratings — published 2002 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye 4.20 avg rating — 3,720 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Country Of The Blind (Jack Parlabane, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 3,611 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boiling a Frog (Jack Parlabane, #3) 3.96 avg rating — 3,443 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks (Jack Parlabane, #5) 4.07 avg rating — 3,105 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be My Enemy (Jack Parlabane, #4) 4.13 avg rating — 2,970 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Christopher Brookmyre

Jack Parlabane (9 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 31,379 ratings

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4.15 avg rating — 11,538 ratings

Jasmine Sharp and Catherine McLeod (3 books)
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4.05 avg rating — 7,078 ratings

Quotes by Christopher Brookmyre (?)

“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Be My Enemy

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“Parlabane found the word 'pro-active' enormously useful, as it immediately exposed the speaker as an irredeemable arsehole, whatever previous impression might have been given. Once upon a time, he remembered, people and companies just did things. But that ceased to be impressive enough, and for a while they 'actively' did things. Now they 'pro-actively' did things, but it was still the same bloody things that they were doing when they just plain old did things. Meaningless wank-language.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Quite Ugly One Morning

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“Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World

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Polls

February/March 2014 Group Read

And Then There Were None/Agatha Christie

40 votes, 10.8%

The Shining / Stephen King

36 votes, 9.7%

Defending Jacob/ William Landay

33 votes, 8.9%

A Ghostly Undertaking/Tonya Kappes

30 votes, 8.1%

Ripper: A Novel / Isabel Allende

30 votes, 8.1%

Where the Bodies Are Buried / Christopher Brookmyre

21 votes, 5.7%

A Test Of Wills / Charles Todd

20 votes, 5.4%

Rules Of Prey / John Sandford

19 votes, 5.1%

The Green Mile / Stephen King

18 votes, 4.9%

1st to Die / James Patterson

18 votes, 4.9%

Aftershock: A Thriller/Andrew Vachss

16 votes, 4.3%

Pig Island/ Mo Hayder

14 votes, 3.8%

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter/Sharyn McCrumb

13 votes, 3.5%

First Night of Summer/ Landon Parham

13 votes, 3.5%

The Blind Man of Seville/ Robert Wilson

12 votes, 3.2%

The Chalk Circle Man / Fred Vargas

8 votes, 2.2%

Havana Queen/James Bruno

6 votes, 1.6%

Broken Dolls /James Carol

6 votes, 1.6%

The Eleventh Victim/ Nancy Grace

5 votes, 1.4%

The Case of the Love Commandos / Tarquin Hall

5 votes, 1.4%

A Terrible Beauty/Graham Masterton

3 votes, 0.8%

On Behalf of the Family/ Mar Preston

2 votes, 0.5%

next of sin/Lisa Gordon

1 vote, 0.3%

Dr. 2/ Peter Tieryas

1 vote, 0.3%

370 total votes

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