Works
Hector Lassiter Series – Head Games
Hector Lassiter Series – Toros & Torsos
Hector Lassiter Series -Roll the Credits
The Night Town Trilogy – Immortal Gain
Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist and writer. He is a finalist of the Edgar, the Gumshoe and CrimeSpree Awards and is nominated for the Anthony Award for his first novel, Head Games, introducing Hector Lassiter, a larger-than-life crime writer.
Hector Lassiter also centers highly-praised short stories that appear in two crime fiction anthologies, The Deadly Bride & 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, (Carroll & Graf, 2006) and Danger City II (Contemporary Press, 2006) and three prequels, Toros & Torsos (Bleak House, Fall 2008), Print the Legend (St. Martin’s Press, Winter 2010) and Roll the Credits (St. Martin’s Press, 2010).
Head Games is soon to appear in graphic novel format from First Second Books, an Eisner Award winning imprint of Henry Holt & Company.
Craig McDonald was a contributor to the 2004 New York Times nonfiction bestseller Secrets of the Code and an author of two books of interviews with major American and European crime and mystery writers: Art In the Blood (PointBlank, 2006) and Rogue Males, (Bleak House, 2009).
His short stories and articles have also appeared in the Mississippi Review, Hard Luck Stories, Crime Factory, Crimespree and Thuglit.
Primary agent: Author Rights Agency Ltd, Ireland
