Alex Grecian Alex Grecian is an American author of short fiction, novels, comic books, and graphic novels. His notable works include the comic book series Proof and the novels in the Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series: The Yard , The Black Country , The Devil's Workshop , The Harvest Man , Lost and Gone Forever , and The Blue Girl . He has been nominated for the for Best Debut Novel for The Yard , for The Black Country , and the for Best First Novel for The Yard . He was also the recipient of an Inkpot Award in 2018 and of the Kansas Notable Book Awards from the State Library of Kansas for The Yard , The Black Country , and The Devil's Workshop .Career Famous AuthorLiterary influences As a child and a teenager, Grecian read the works of C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens , Lewis Carroll , and Edgar Allan Poe . He later became a fan of crime fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Graham Greene , Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald , and John D. MacDonald. Other influences include John Irving , Kurt Vonnegut , Michael Chabon , and Stephen King .Comics and graphic novels Grecian's first comic book work, released in 2006, was a collaboration with Canadian comic book artist and illustrator Riley Rossmo on Seven Sons , a graphic novel based on the anonymously written Chinese folktale Ten Brothers known to be written around the time of the Ming Dynasty. In 2007, he started work on Proof, also with Riley Rossmo. NPR named this series one of the best books of 2009. Grecian and Rossmo started on their third project together, Rasputin , in the fall of 2014. This series is a work of fiction based on the life of Grigori Rasputin . Rasputin was a mystical adviser in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in the early nineteen hundreds. In 2013, with fellow creators B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun , and Seth Peck, Grecian developed the anthology Bad Karma using a Kickstarter campaign. Bad Karma is a hardcover comics, prose and art collection featuring five separate, inter-related creator-owned concepts.Novels In May 2012 Grecian's debut novel The Yard was released by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This novel is the first in the Murder Squad Series. The second novel in the series, The Black Country was released in May 2013, then the third, The Devil's Workshop in May 2014, the fourth, The Harvest Man in May 2015, and the fifth, Lost and Gone Forever in May 2016. The e-book The Blue Girl is also a story of the Murder Squad and was released in June 2013. In April 2018 Grecian released the stand-alone book The Saint of Wolves and Butchers also published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Seven Sons Proof Book 1: Goatsucker Proof Book 2: The Company Of Men Proof Book 3: Thunderbirds Are Go! Proof Book 4: Julia Proof Book 5: Blue Fairies Proof Book 6: Endangered Fractured Fables Dia de Los Muertos Rasputin Volume 1 Rasputin Volume 2 The Unexpected The Yard The Black Country The Blue Girl The Devil's Workshop The Harvest Man Lost and Gone Forever The Saint of Wolves and Butchers Unknown Caller Selected awards and honors 2012 The New York Times Best Seller list for The Yard 2013 Barry Award nomination for Best First Novel for The Yard 2013 Strand Magazine's Critic's Award nomination for Best Debut Novel for The Yard 2013 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Yard 2014 Dilys Award nomination for Mystery Title of the Year for The Black Country 2014 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Black Country 2015 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Devil's Workshop 2017 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for Lost and Gone Forever 2018 Inkpot Award for The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
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