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, The Devil's Workshop, Lost and Gone Forever, and Red Rabbit.

Career

Literary 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. In September 2023, Grecian released the novel Red Rabbit, published by Tor Books. The stand-alone sequel, Rose of Jericho, will be released in March 2025 also by Tor Books.

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  • ''Seven Sons''

    [Image Comics]

  • 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
  • ''Proof Compendium''

    [Vertigo (DC Comics)]

  • ''The Unexpected''

    [G. P. Putnam's Sons]

  • 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''

    [Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]

  • "Unknown Caller"
  • "The Scarlet Box"

    [TKO Studios]

  • ''One Eye Open''

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  • "The Price of Rye"

    [Tor Books]

  • Red Rabbit
  • ''Rose of Jericho''

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  • "Item G2V" in Long Division
  • "The Boatman"

    Selected awards and honors

  • 2012 The New York Times Bestseller 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
  • 2024 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for Red Rabbit
  • 2024 The for significance to the library community
  • 2025 USA Today Bestseller list for ''Rose of Jerico''