Craig Russell

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2000
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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About the Author

Craig Russell served for several years as a police officer in Scotland before becoming an advertising copywriter and later a creative director. He has been a full-time novelist since 2004. His Hamburg based crime series featuring Jan Fabel has sold worldwide and is due to appear on German-language television. His first thriller in this series, Lennox, was published to widespread acclaim. Craig had been shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award and has won the CWA Dagger Award in the Library. He lives in Perthshire, Scotland.

Full Series List in Order

The Fabel Novels

1 - Blood Eagle (Apr-2006)

The Lennox Novels

1 - Lennox (Jan-2000)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Lennox

    The Lennox Novels - 1

  • Blood Eagle

    The Fabel Novels - 1

    'Blood Eagle' is a violently exciting thriller, and detective Jan Fabel's desperate attempt to solve the case before more victims are discovered gradually uncovers layer upon layer of intrigue. How can he track a murderer who leaves no trail and whos...

  • Karneval

  • Black Bottle Man

    Forced to move every twelve days, what would happen to your life? 1927. Rembrandt is the only child in the tiny community of Three Farms. Soon his two aunts grow desperate for babies of their own. A man wearing a black top-coat and a glad-ta-meet-...

  • The Long Glasgow Kiss

    Glasgow bookie and greyhound breeder Jimmy MacFarlane runs one of the biggest operations at Glasgow's dog-racing tracks. When MacFarlane is bludgeoned to death with a bronze statue of his best racer, Lennox had a solid gold alibi - he had spent the n...

  • Dead Men and Broken Hearts

    November 1956. While the world is gripped by the Suez Crisis, investigator Lennox has more immediate concerns, like getting his life and his business back on track. So, when a woman comes into his office and hires him to follow her two-timing husban...

  • Biblical

    In the tradition of Michael Crichton and Margaret Atwood, an apocalyptic thriller that pits cutting-edge science against God and asks -- who will win? A strange phenomenon is sweeping the globe. People are having visions, seeing angels, experienci...

  • The Ghosts of Altona

    WINNER OF THE BLOODY SCOTLAND CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2015

    Head of Hamburg's Murder Commission, Jan Fabel is used to the dead, but when a routine enquiry spirals out of control he finds himself on much closer terms with death - his own.

    ...

  • Fragment

    When avalanching glaciers thrust a massive Antarctic ice sheet into the open ocean, the captain of an atomic submarine must risk his vessel to rescue the survivors of a smashed polar research station; in Washington the President’s top advisor scram...



  • The Devil Aspect

    A terrifying novel set in Czechoslovakia in 1935, in which a brilliant young psychiatrist takes his new post at an asylum for the criminally insane that houses only six inmates--the country's most depraved murderers--while, in Prague, a detective str...

  • The Deep Dark Sleep

  • The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid

  • Hyde

    From the internationally acclaimed author, a stunning gothic reimagining of the Jekyll and Hyde story in which Captain Edward Hyde, chief detective of Victorian Edinburgh, investigates a gruesome murder that may unmask his own darkest sec...

  • Brother Grimm

  • The Carnival Master

  • Eternal

  • A Fear of Dark Water

  • The Valkyrie Song

  • The Devil's Playground

    A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist, from the internationally acclaimed author of The Devil Aspect."An excellent, engro...



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Craig Russell has published 19 books.

Craig Russell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Devil's Playground, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Craig Russell, Lennox, was published in January 2000.

Yes. Craig Russell has 2 series.
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