Adam Croft


Adam Croft is an English writer of crime fiction. He has become one of the biggest-selling self-published authors and is an advocate of independent publishing.

Work

Writing

Croft has written more than twenty books, including the Knight & Culverhouse crime thrillers and Kempston Hardwick mysteries. He has hit the USA Today bestseller list twice, with the Kempston Hardwick box set and his 2015 psychological thriller Her Last Tomorrow. Although he had been writing and self-publishing professionally for five years when Her Last Tomorrow was released, it was this book that brought him international attention. He has also had several plays published with Lazy Bee Scripts.
As an advocate of self-publishing, he has often spoken out about the negative sides of traditional publishing and in 2012 he responded angrily to Sue Grafton's comments that self-publishing was disrespectful and lazy. Grafton later apologised for her comments.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Bedfordshire in March 2018 "in recognition of his outstanding services to literature".
In 2020, he announced he was launching a new crime series set in Rutland.

Personal life

Adam Croft lives in Flitwick, Bedfordshire.