Craig Russell (Author)

Craig Russell (2009)

Craig Russell (* 1956 in County Fife , Scotland ) is a British writer best known for his thriller crime novels.

Life

Craig Russell was a cop, copywriter, and creative director prior to writing.

In 2005 Russell published his first crime novel Blutadler , in which the protagonist is a Hamburg detective chief named Jan Fabel. The series of fable novels came about because Russell says he has long had an interest in the German language, culture and people. He speaks fluent German and has traveled extensively in northern Germany.

After Blutadler , four more fable novels were published by 2010 in English - by Verlag Hutchinson (Random House) - and in German translation by Ehrenwirth (Lübbe). The series was turned into audio books, read in the German version by David Nathan . On October 30, 2010, the first broadcast of the thriller Wolfsfährte based on the second fable of the same name took place on ARD . The German production company Tivoli Film, run by Austrian producers Thomas Hroch and Gerald Podgornig , is also producing four other film adaptations for ARD .

In addition to the fable novel series, Russell began a second series of novels with the Lennox novels, which he set in the Glasgow underworld in the 1950s . This series has been published since 2009. In 2014 he published the novel Biblical under the pseudonym Christopher Galt . In the paperback version published in 2015, it was given the title The Third Testament , with Russel also being named as the author on the title.

Russell lives in Perthshire with his wife and two children . His hobbies include painting, cooking and traveling.

Awards

In 2007, Russell was nominated for the UK Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Golden Dagger Award , the largest award for crime novelists. Also in 2007 Russell was nominated for the French crime crime prize SNCF Prix Polar. Furthermore, in February 2007 he was currently (2016) the only foreigner to be awarded this award, honored with the prestigious Police Master of the Hamburg Police. Said award is given to people who have made a contribution to the presentation of the Hamburg police and their issues in public.

In 2008 he won the CWA's Dagger in the Library for the most loaned living crime writer in public libraries.

Works

Jan Fabel thriller series

1. Blood Eagle . Hutchinson (Random House), New York, 2005, ISBN 978-0-09-180014-7 (German blood eagle . Ehrenwirth (Lübbe), Bergisch Gladbach, 2006, ISBN 978-3-431-03623-7 ).
2. Brother Grimm . Hutchinson (Random House), New York, 2006, ISBN 978-0-09-179559-7 (German Wolfsfährte . Ehrenwirth (Lübbe), Bergisch Gladbach, 2007, ISBN 978-3-431-03697-8 ).
3. Eternal . Hutchinson (Random House), New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-09-179699-0 (German Brandmal , Thriller. Ehrenwirth (Lübbe), Bergisch Gladbach, 2008, ISBN 978-3-431-03727-2 ).
4. The Carnival Master . Hutchinson (Random House), New York, 2009, ISBN 978-0-09-192142-2 (German Carneval . Ehrenwirth (Lübbe), Bergisch Gladbach, 2009, ISBN 978-3-431-03770-8 ).
5. The Valkyrie Song . Hutchinson (Random House), New York, 2009, ISBN 978-0-09-954794-5 (Dt. Walküre . Ehrenwirth (Lübbe), Bergisch Gladbach, 1st edition April 2010, ISBN 978-3-431-03795-1 ).
6. A Fear of Dark Water . Hutchinson (Random House), New York, 2011, ISBN 978-0-09-192536-9 (Ger. Tiefenangst . Ehrenwirth (Lübbe), Bergisch Gladbach, 1st edition May 2011, ISBN 978-3-431-03832-3 )
7. The Ghosts of Altona . Quercus Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78087-492-0 (German Resurrection . Rütten & Loening 1st edition August 2016, ISBN 978-3-352-00887-0 )

Lennox series

1. Lennox . Quercus Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84724-966-1 (dt. Lennox . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1st ed., July 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-16448-6 ).
2. The Long Glasgow Kiss . Quercus Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84724-968-5 (German Lennox's return . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1st edition February 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-16627-5 ).
3. The Deep Dark Sleep . Quercus Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-85738-180-4 (German Lennox 'The Dark Sleep . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1st edition December 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-16752-4 ).
4. Dead Men and Broken Hearts . Quercus Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-0-85738-184-2
5. The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid . Quercus Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78087-488-3

Christopher Galt

• Biblical . Quercus Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78087-480-7 . (Paperback: The Third Testament . Quercus Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78087-483-8 ).

Film adaptations of the Jan Fabel thriller series

Five of the seven novels were filmed for German television with Peter Lohmeyer as Chief Inspector Jan Fabel:

Movie	Novel	Director	Screenwriter	First broadcast
Wolf track	Wolf track	Urs Egger	Daniel Martin Eckhart	October 30, 2010
Blood eagle	Blood eagle	Nils Willbrandt	Daniel Martin Eckhart	November 3, 2012
Branding	Branding	Nicolai Rohde	Nils Willbrandt and Nils-Morten Osburg	19th September 2015
Carneval - The clown brings death	Carneval	Nicolai Rohde	Nils-Morten Osburg	May 21, 2018 ( ORF ), September 15, 2018 ( Das Erste )
Death Angel	Valkyrie	Jakob Ziemnicki	Nils-Morten Osburg and Jakob Ziemicki	15th December 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Craig Russell in the catalog of the German National Library
• craigrussell.com , Craig Russell's official website
• Craig Russel at Krimicouch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Official website of Craig Russell , accessed May 2, 2011.