Craig Robertson

Before he became a full-time writer, Craig Robertson served as a newspaper journalist for a Scottish Sunday Newspaper for more than twenty years. During his stint at the Sunday Newspaper, Craig Robertson had the opportunity of interviewing three prime ministers, also reported on major events including the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Omagh bombing, Dunblane and also on the disappearance of one Madeline McCann. Robertson beat Oprah Winfrey to scoop a major award, pilloried on breakfast television, dispensed polio drops in the backstreets of Mumbai and even spent time as a Death Row convict in the United States. The author’s gritty crime novels are set in the mean streets of the modern Glasgow. Craig Robertson’s first novel, Random was selected for the 2010 CWA New Blood Dagger Award, became a NEW York Times bestseller and was also shortlisted for the Crime Novel of the Year.