Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman

Join us for an evening of Scottish Crime, based on real events!

Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman and we will be discussing their latest book "The Death of Shame".

Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven’s emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared.

Sarah’s inquiries lead her to reforming campaigners trying to publicise the plight of the hundreds of girls ensnared in Edinburgh’s houses of assignation. Sarah learns how young women are lured, deceived, trafficked and raped, leaving them ruined in the eyes of a society obsessed with moral purity, and where virginity is prized as a lucrative commodity.

The Ambrose Parry books are all inspired by the fascinating facts former consultant anaesthetist Haetzman uncovered through her master’s degree in the history of medicine in 2014.