Chris Brookmyre lives in Glasgow with his wife and son. He has won two Sherlock Awards and was winner of both the 2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for writing, and the 2006 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Since the appearance of his first, Quite Ugly One Morning, over 1 million copies have been sold across all eleven novels, and Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain’s leading crime novelists. Author’s website: www.brookmyre.co.uk