Castle, and has minor roles in Dead Girl Walking and Black Widow, and a minor reference in Fallen Angel. Bedlam Bedlam was released in 2013. The book has been turned into a video game, also written by Brookmyre. Ambrose Parry In 2018, Brookmyre wrote The Way of All Flesh with his wife, Dr. Marisa Haetzman. It was published under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry. In 2020, the team followed up with The Art of Dying, and in 2021, A Corruption of Blood. Bibliography Quite Ugly One Morning, 1996 Country of the Blind, 1997 Not the End of the World, 1998 One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, 1999 Boiling a Frog, 2000 A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, 2001 The Sacred Art of Stealing, 2003 Be My Enemy, 2004 All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye, 2005 A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil, 2006 The Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, 2007 A Snowball in Hell, 2008 Pandaemonium, 2009 Where the Bodies Are Buried, 2011 When the Devil Drives, 2012 Jaggy Splinters (ebook only), 2012 Bedlam, 2013 Flesh Wounds, 2013 (published in the U.S. as Bred In the Bone) The Last Day of Christmas, 2014 (ebook only - short story) Dead Girl Walking, 2015 Black Widow, 2016 Want You Gone, 2017 (published in the U.S. as The Last Hack) Siege Mentality, 2017 (ebook only - short story. Originally published as The Last Siege of Bothwell Castle in the Bloody Scotland anthology) Places in the Darkness (starting with this novel, the author's byline is given as Chris Brookmyre), 2017 The Way of All Flesh, 2018 (with Dr. Marisa Haetzman, published as by Ambrose Parry) Fallen Angel, 2019 The Art of Dying, 2020 (with Dr. Marisa Haetzman, published as by Ambrose Parry) The Cut, 2021 A Corruption of Blood, 2021 (with Dr. Marisa Haetzman, published as by Ambrose Parry) The Cliff House, 2022 Influences Brookmyre has said that the inspiration for Jack Parlabane was Ford Prefect from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series; he said "I always adored the idea of a character who cheerfully wanders into enormously dangerous situations and effortlessly makes them much worse." The name Parlabane is taken from the works of Robertson Davies as are the names of several other characters in Brookmyre's works, indicating another of the author's influences. Music is heavily featured in several books.