Award-winning author, published in 25 languages, five novels made into films; other work optioned by Sony Pictures/Columbia, AppleTV+, BBC, STVstudios, among others.

Craig Russell:
• won the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for ‘Hyde’, the first author to have won the award twice.
• won the 2015 Crime Book of the Year (McIlvanney Prize) for ‘The Ghosts of Altona’
• won the 2008 CWA Dagger in the Library for the Fabel series
• is the only non-German to be awarded the highly prestigious Polizeistern (Police Star) by the Polizei Hamburg
• was shortlisted for the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award
• was shortlisted for the 2023 McIlvanney Prize for ‘The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid’, the latest in the Lennox series
• was shortlisted for the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for ‘The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid’, the latest in the Lennox series
• was shortlisted for the 2012 inaugural Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the year
• 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 runner-up for the 2007 SNCF Prix Polar in France