Craig Russell

Award-winning author of the Jan Fabel thrillers set in contemporary Hamburg and the Lennox series set in the Glasgow of the 1950s, Craig Russell's novels have been translated into twenty-three languages worldwide and dramatized for television and radio. Craig Russell is the only non-German to be awarded the highly prestigious Polizeistern by the Polizei Hamburg; finalist for the 2007 CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger and the SNCF Prix Polar in France; winner of the 2008 CWA Dagger in the Library; finalist for the 2012 Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year; finalist for the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger; winner of the 2015 Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year. The first television adaptation in Germany of a Jan Fabel novel attracted an audience of six million viewers. Two further novels have been made into films. He also writes non-crime fiction under the name Christopher Galt.