“A wildly entertaining story that grabs you on page one and drags you into its dark world kicking and screaming.”

NEW YORK TIMES (EDITORS’ CHOICE)

“A truly frightening story, one that gets under your skin slowly, then goes deep, like the tip of a butcher knife.”

NEW YORK TIMES (EDITORS’ CHOICE)

THE DEVIL ASPECT

Classic, twisted gothic thriller, published by Doubleday in the US, Constable in the UK – movie rights bought Sony/Columbia Pictures.

Award-winning author Craig Russell’s novels have been translated into twenty-five languages worldwide. The movie rights to The Devil Aspect, published by Doubleday in the US and Constable/Little, Brown in the UK has been bought by Sony/Columbia Pictures. Five Fabel novels have been made into movies (in one of which Craig Russell makes a cameo appearance as a detective) by Tivoli Films and transmitted on German national broadcaster ARD.  The Lennox novels are being developed into a returning TV series by BAFTA award-winning Synchronicity Films.

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#Books: Currently reading Hyde by @TheCraigRussell, The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line by @RuthieSThomas and Saving Speedway by Philip Dalling.
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Fantastic review of HYDE in @STARBURST_MAG ! https://t.co/xebZaejsPn
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"A Gothic-noir crime novel that will stay with the reader for a long time" Craig Russell’s Hyde is published on February 4th. Check out our thoughts: https://t.co/VU4gkrDNlv https://t.co/7lIW7rPbq0

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Talk about praise from on high! I can't believe that Frank Darabont, writer and director of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, has reached out to tell me what he thinks of my writing!

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Fantastic review of HYDE, which comes out in March, in Starburst Magazine. Thanks Starburst Magazine!

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Questo libro è il classico esempio di colpo di fulmine: vista la copertina, letta la trama ed era già nella lista desideri. Visto e preso come si suol dire.

Thriller dai toni cupi e medioevali per l’ambientazione in un castello racconta in maniera magistrale le follie e le perversioni dei serial killer più malvagi d’Europa soprannominati i “Sei figli del Diavolo”. Il castello della Cecoslovacchia strizza l’occhio al Conte Dracula naturalmente quindi fa decisamente per voi se amate quelle atmosfere.
Un brillante psichiatra si occuperà di loro attraverso un nuovo trattamento: l’ipnosi. Con questa tecnica Viktor spera di poter andare più a fondo nelle loro menti esplorandone il lato più oscuro.

Non conoscevo questo scrittore ma devo dire che mi ha sorpreso sia per la gestione delle atmosfere che per la trama non banale e dall’eccellente finale. Esiste un prequel di questo romanzo dal titolo “Il Castello del Male”, racconto che consigliamo - prima o dopo come preferite - per introdurre questo luogo già da solo estremamente spaventoso.

Trama: È il 1935 e, mentre in Europa soffiano già i primi venti della furia nazista, nel cuore della Cecoslovacchia c'è un luogo difficile da raggiungere, in cima a una rupe. Lì, in un ospedale psichiatrico ospitato in un castello medievale, sono rinchiusi i "Sei Figli del Diavolo", i serial killer più malvagi d'Europa. Da Hedvika Valentová, nota come la Vegetariana, a Pavel Zeleny, detto il Taglialegna, fino al più temibile di tutti, Vojtech Skalá, che per la sua incrollabile fede nel male è soprannominato il "Demone". È lì che è diretto Viktor Kosárek, giovane e brillante psichiatra praghese. Seduto nel treno, mentre attraversa lande deserte e tetri paesaggi rurali, Viktor sente di non avere paura: le sue nuove tecniche di ipnosi e sonno cosciente sono pronte per essere testate, e lui non vede l'ora di schiudere i segreti che si celano nelle menti disturbate dei sei pazienti, e di esplorare il lato oscuro della loro personalità. E, forse, perfino di curarli. Ma quando una serie di efferati omicidi comincia a scuotere Praga, Viktor, vista la sua conoscenza approfondita degli abissi dell'animo umano, si troverà coinvolto nelle indagini del detective Smolák. Al giovane psichiatra sarà chiaro che il male ha un modo tutto suo di insinuarsi ovunque, anche dove meno ci si aspetta di trovarlo. E lo imparerà a sue spese.
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Recording of the audiobook of HYDE (out Feb '21) has just finished. I am absolutely delighted to announce that I got my No1 choice for narrator: the hugely talented Hollywood and British screen star James Cosmo! I’m honoured to have such a voice reading my work! Thanks to Strathmore Publishing Hachette Audio and, of course, the man himself!
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Just received the splendid-looking Finnish edition of DEAD MEN AND BROKEN HEARTS (Kuolleita miehiä, särkyneitä sydämiä) Cool! Kiitos paljon, Siniplaneetta!
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TV and Film

CARNEVAL – Trailer

Tivoli Films/ARD movie of Craig Russell’s CARNEVAL

Brandmal Film Trailer

German film version of Craig Russell’s ETERNAL (BRANDMAL in German) Film-Trailer für Craig Russells BRANDMAL

Wolfsfährte – Trailer

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“THE DEVIL ASPECT is a wildly entertaining story that grabs you on page one and drags you into its dark world kicking and screaming. Russell has created a truly frightening story, one that gets under your skin slowly, then goes deep, like the tip of a butcher knife. I read the novel one snowy night by the fire, unable to sleep until I finished, then unable to sleep once I had.”

NEW YORK TIMES (EDITORS’ CHOICE)

“A tour de force: a clever and visceral thriller with a one-two-three knockout of an ending that left me dazed. The brooding backdrop of a Czechoslovakia on the brink of World War II just adds another layer of atmosphere to an already nightmarish read.”

LINCOLN CHILD - #1 New York Times bestselling author

“A crime story that transcends the genre. Craig Russell brilliantly uses the character of his tough, funny and hopeful man Lennox to give us the eyes and ears on a time and place. This is storytelling at its very best!”

Michael Connelly

“Steeped in the chilling folklore of Eastern Europe and echoing the dread of a barbaric war to come, The Devil Aspect snatches the reader by the lapels for a thrilling, twisting trip through the darkest corridors of the human mind.”

Daniel H. Wilson - New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse

“A blood-pumping, nerve-shredding thriller–elegant, edgy, ingenious. Craig Russell conjures not one but two unforgettable settings: Prague between the wars, pulsing with menace, and a Gothic mental asylum, as exciting a house of horrors as I’ve ever visited. You’ll enter both with dread. You’ll dwell in them with relish.”

A. J. Finn - #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

“Deep, dark, and twisty, The Devil Aspect will keep you up all night reading… With all the lights on. Russell has created a gripping masterpiece of a thriller!”

Alex Grecian - New York Times bestselling author of THE YARD

“A distinctive and exciting new voice in crime fiction… this is gritty, authentic and disturbing stuff”

Mo Hayder

“Lennox is a private eye for the ages. Tough, uncomprising and insightful, with concrete fists and a heart of gold. Russell has brilliantly captured post-war Glasgow and the vulnerability of those left to pick up the pieces.”

Michael Robotham

“In 1935 Prague, vicious murders are linked to a medieval castle housing an insane asylum outside the city in this well-crafted gothic crime tale…. A seasoned writer, Russell keeps the police case moving at a good clip…but nothing to match the ending, which offers more twists than a Chubby Checker album. A smart, atmospheric, and entertaining read but not for the Jung and easily Freudened.”

Kirkus Reviews

“Scalpel-sharp dissection of the nature of evil. A splendidly Gothic story. It is breathtaking.”

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