“A tense and atmospheric new thriller from a master of historical fiction.”

Steven Veerapen, author of The Abbey Close

About the Author

“R.N. Morris needs locking in a room with no access to the outside world and no internet – his ideas are far too dangerous.”

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My latest book is The Crimson Child. Before that, came Law of Blood. They’re both historical crime stories set in St Petersburg in 1880.

 I have also written a historical novel about Walter Raleigh called Fortune’s Hand.

My Silas Quinn series of historical crime novels are set in London in 1914: Summon Up The Blood, The Mannequin HouseThe Dark PalaceThe Red Hand of Fury, The White Feather Killer and The Music Box Enigma.

A Gentle Axe was published by Faber and Faber in 2007. Set in St Petersburg in the nineteenth century, it features Porfiry Petrovich, the investigating magistrate from Dostoevsky’s great novel, Crime and Punishment. The book was published in many countries, including Russia. I followed that up with A Vengeful Longing, which was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award (as the CWA Gold Dagger was briefly known). A Razor Wrapped in Silk came next, followed by The Cleansing Flames, which was nominated for the Ellis Peters Historical Novel Dagger. All four Porfiry Petrovich novels have recently been reissued by Sharpe Books.

I also wrote the dystopian thriller  PSYCHOTOPIA. and the standalone contemporary thriller, Taking Comfort.

As Roger Morris, I am a scriptwriter for Noiser podcasts, most recently on Detectives Don’t Sleep.