Rank Bajin is major plot development point. Alexis 'Lex', a major character in "All Fun and Games until someone loses an Eye" appears briefly and has a conversation with Jack Parlabane, in "Want You Gone". She appears as a security consultant at a trade fair, working for Solid Bett Security Partners, so is presumably still connected with her fellow characters from "All Fun and Games...." Savage Earth Heart, the band in "Dead Girl Walking", is referenced on the last-page-but-one of "Fallen Angel". Awards Quite Ugly One Morning was the winner of the Critics' First Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year in 1996. Bampot Central was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Macallan Short Story Dagger in 1997. Boiling a Frog won the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective in 2000. All Fun And Games until Someone Loses an Eye was the winner of the seventh Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2006. Black Widow won the McIlvanney Prize, previously known as the Scottish Crime Book of the year, in 2016. Black Widow was the winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2017. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library in 2020. References External links Radio interview (2008) Quack science Article by Brookmyre in New Humanist, September/October 2007 Story behind Bedlam - Online Essay by Christopher Brookmyre in Upcoming4.me, January 2014 Rouen University interview with Chris Brookmyre Scottish novelists Scottish crime fiction writers 1968 births Living people People from Barrhead People educated at St Luke's High School Scottish humanists Tartan Noir writers Scottish male novelists