title: A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
text: # A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
  
  A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil is the tenth novel by Christopher Brookmyre.
  
  ## Awards
  
  It has been long-listed for the 2008 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
  
  