Roger Smith

Roger Smith's novels are published in nine languages and two are in development as movies in the U.S. He has won the German Crime Fiction Award and been nominated for France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He also writes espionage as James Rayburn and horror as Max Wilde. "Smith writes with brutal beauty." The Washington Post "The master of the coolly-described nightmare." Der Spiegel "Smith's writing is astonishing." The Cleveland Plain Dealer "A master of suspense." The Sunday Times "The shooting star of the crime scene." Radio Europe "Smith has a unique ability to grab readers and plunge them headlong into his nightmare visions." The Times "The crime genre's greatest tragedian." Spinetingler Magazine "Smith captures a world where nothing is certain, least of all the rules of coexistence." Arte "A leader in dark, relentless fiction." Marianne Magazine "Smith writes coolly and with grace about unspeakable horror." The Argus "He portrays a world that has lost all hope of redemption." Le Monde "Nobody can peel back the layers of damaged people and a broken society so poetically." crimefictionlover.com