The Ginger Cat Bookshop Presents an Evening with Ambrose Parry

The Ginger Cat Bookshop Presents an Evening with Ambrose Parry

Fri 6th June at 7pm

Bernie’s Cafe Deli

Join us for a night of mystery and intrigue. Meet author duo, Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman who are behind the bestselling Ambrose Parry historical crime novels. Chris Brookmyre is an internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author and Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience. The couple teamed up to write a series of historical crime thrillers, featuring the darkest of Victorian Edinburgh’s secrets. The Raven and Fisher series is inspired by the fascinating historical facts Haetzman uncovered through her master’s degree in the History of Medicine.

Hear all about the Raven and Fisher series and don’t miss this exciting opportunity to dive into the world of Victorian Edinburgh. The Death of Shame is the fifth and final of the Raven & Fisher series. All books in the series will be available to purchase and have signed on the night by Chris and Marisa.

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 waspromised 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.

Praise for Ambrose Parry

‘A rip-roaring tale of murder amid the medical experiments of 19 th -century Edinburgh. The book brings both city and period to colourful life and is a joy to read.’ Ian Rankin, Guardian

‘Brilliantly conceived. Fiendishly plotted’ Mick Herron