Ambrose Parry
Chris Brookmyre is an internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author and Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience. The Raven and Fisher series is inspired by the fascinating historical facts Haetzman uncovered through her master’s degree in the History of Medicine which she completed in 2014. The couple teamed up to write a series of historical crime thrillers, featuring the darkest of Victorian Edinburgh’s secrets. They are married and live in Scotland. The Way of All Flesh, The Art of Dying and A Corruption of Blood were shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. A Corruption of Blood was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2022. In 2024, Voices of the Dead was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger and their short story A Spendthrift and the Swallow was shortlisted for the CWA Short Dagger Award.
Discover the dark underbelly of Victorian Edinburgh in Ambrose Parry’s The Art of Dying, out now.
Will Raven and Sarah Fisher return in The Art of Dying, out now.
“You wish to know how I could have done what I did, how I could have taken so many lives without arousing the merest suspicion. The answer lies within yourselves’”
“A rip-roaring tale of murder amid the medical experiments of 19th-century Edinburgh”
An early recommendation (from none other than Ian Rankin) for Ambrose Parry’s upcoming The Way of All Flesh.
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