Chris Brookmyre

Jul 18, 2024 | scotsman.com | Matthew Mohan-Hickson |Chris Brookmyre

Find your next binge 📺Cobra Kai has started its final season. Hit reality series Too Hot to Handle is returning for a new season. Netflix has also dropped some major sportsdocumentaries including one on an Olympic legend. Netflix has blessed subscribers with a feast's worth of new films and TV shows this week. From the start of Cobra Kai’s final season to documentary series on an Olympic legend and a whole football league, there is something for everyone.

Jul 18, 2024 | theadvertiser.ie | Chris Brookmyre

The exceptional brain-twisting mysteryBy Chris BrookmyreTwo detectives who should never have met. One case that can’t exist…FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVELYou know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumbling local police. A razor-sharp mind in a twinset and tweed. You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective.

Jul 14, 2024 | scotsman.com | Brian Ferguson |Chris Brookmyre

Retired librarian Penelope Coyne solves murders in her sleepy Perthshire villageIn a sleepy corner of Perthshire, an octogenarian sleuth has got yet another murder on her mind. Penelope Coyne, the new character introduced at the start of Chris Brookmyre's new crime thriller, would appear to have more than a few things in common with Miss Marple.

Apr 25, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | Christopher Brookmyre |Ida Tarczynska |Chris Brookmyre

‘Once you start adding flesh and bones to these characters, they suggest things you never thought of, and the story goes off in unexpected directions. Which is as it should be, because if you don’t surprise yourself, you can’t surprise the reader.’Christopher Brookmyre’s The Cracked Mirror looks set to be the most imaginative and entertaining crime novel of the year. He spoke to us about characterisation through memories and breaking boundaries in the crime genre.

Apr 24, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | Chris Brookmyre

Chris Brookmyre Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite Ugly One Morning, which established him as one of Britain’s leading crime writers. His 2006 novel All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye won the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize, and his 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award.