Gareth Creer

Gareth Creer (born 1961 in Salford ) is a British writer. He is best known for his crime novels with Detective Inspector Wagstaffe, which were published under his pseudonym Adam Creed .

life and work

Gareth Creer was born in Weaste, the central district of the city of Salford in northwest England, and grew up in Bury in the Manchester area on. Creer studied economics at the University of Oxford and then worked in London at various banks before focusing on his writing career from 1994. He took several literary courses at Sheffield Hallam University and completed his Masters in Creative Writing before publishing his first novels under his real name.

After a long break, which he partly spent in Andalusia , Creer published his first book in 2009 under the pseudonym Adam Creed with the title Suffer the Children (German: Nobody knows death ). It is also the first volume in a series of crime novels about Detective Inspector Wagstaffe. At the same time, in 2004 with the support of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Liverpool John Moores University, he started a writing program for young prisoners called Free to Write . He is also Head of Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool .

Gareth Creer is married and has two daughters.

Publications

under Adam Creed

• 2009: Suffer the Children. Faber & Faber, 2009. ISBN 978-05712-4363-1
  • Nobody knows death. (German by Andrea von Struve and Petra Post ). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012. ISBN 978-3-596-18340-1
• 2010: Willing Flesh. Faber & Faber, 2010. ISBN 978-05712-4526-0
  • And the flesh is weak. (German by Andrea von Struve and Petra Post). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012. ISBN 978-3-596-18341-8
• 2011: Pain of Death. Faber & Faber, 2011. ISBN 978-05712-4524-6
  • In the beginning there was pain. (German by Andrea von Struve and Petra Post). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012. ISBN 978-3-596-18342-5
• 2012: Death in the sun. Faber & Faber, 2012. ISBN 978-05712-7497-0
• 2013: Kill and tell. Faber & Faber, 2013. ISBN 978-05712-7502-1

under Gareth Creer

• 1998: Skin and Bone
  • The fishmonger. Munich: Goldmann 1999. (= Goldmann Manhattan. 54042.) ISBN 3-442-54042-9
• 1999: Cradle to Grave
• 2001: Big Sky

Web links

• Official Adam Creed website

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Official website of Adam Creed : biography; Accessed February 6, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Adam Creed on krimi-couch.de; Accessed February 6, 2015.
3. ↑ Review for In the Beginning Was the Pain on culturmag.de, October 6, 2012; Accessed February 6, 2015.