Christopher Brookmyre

Jul 18, 2024 | shotsmag.co.uk | Christopher Brookmyre

This promises to be a fun book, but genteel rather than gallows humour, opening with a little old lady investigating a corpse in a confessional. Déjà vu? The setting is a small village in Perthshire, the corpse that of an unpopular parvenu. There is a whiff of clerical shenanigans, the ambience suggestively naughty, the style reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse.

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.

Jul 15, 2023 | groveatlantic.com | Donna Leon |Deon Meyer |Christopher Brookmyre |Belinda Bauer

Other people kill their husbands. Not her. Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net.