Andrew Taylor (author)

[1] His first novel, Caroline Minuscule (1982), won the John Creasey Memorial Award of the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain.

He is the only author to have won the CWA's Historical Dagger three times, with The Office of the Dead, The American Boy and The Scent of Death.

Bleeding Heart Square won Sweden's Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar, in 2009.

The American Boy, a gothic mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe's boyhood years in England, was one of the ten titles featured in Channel 4's Richard and Judy Book Club 2005 and was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade.

It was a three-part drama series under the title of Fallen Angel, starring Charles Dance and Emilia Fox.

Andrew Taylor has also written a number of novellas with ghostly or other-worldly themes, originally as Kindle Singles.