Craig Russell is an award-winning, best-selling and critically acclaimed author, published in twenty-five languages around the world. Five Jan Fabel novels have been made into movies (in one of which Craig Russell makes a cameo appearance as a detective) for ARD, the German national broadcaster. Several other of his novels are currently under screen options or in development for TV.
Craig Russell:
– won the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for ‘Hyde’, making him the only author in the award’s history to have won it twice
– won the 2015 McIlvanney Prize for ‘The Ghosts of Altona’
– won the 2008 CWA Dagger in the Library
– is the only non-German to be awarded the highly prestigious Polizeistern by the Polizei Hamburg
– was shortlisted for the 2023 McIlvanney Prize for ‘The Devil’s Playground’
– was shortlisted for the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for ‘The Devil Aspect’
– was shortlisted for the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for ‘The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid’
– was shortlisted for the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger
– was shortlisted for the 2012 Crime Book of the Year (McIlvanney Prize)
– was shortlisted for the 2007 CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger
– was shortlisted for the 2007 SNCF Prix Polar in France
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