Craig Russell is the author of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed Jan Fabel thrillers set in Hamburg. The Fabel series has been published in twenty-three languages around the world. The fourth in the series, The Carnival Master, is due for UK publication in August 2008. A further two Fabel novels are to be published in 2009 and 2010.

As well as the Fabel novels, Russell is currently completing Lennox, the first in a series of crime novels set in 1950s Glasgow.