CLIO GRAY
Winner of
Harry Bowling
Award
2004
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Winner of
Scotsman
Orange Prize
2006
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Nominated
for the Man
Booker Prize
2015
Long Listed
for the
Baileys Prize
2016
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Short Listed
for Cinnamon
Prize
2022
CLIOGRAY
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
Gray reclaims the historical crime novel from those practitioners content to serve up bland
plot and blander writing...
Not for the faint-hearted.
Latest book 2025
The Hundredth Door
Third in the Troubadour Series
There’s one door into life; many hundreds by which to leave it.
Some of which are in this book, where storms rage, seas tower into wave-whipped maelstroms, mountains are tempest-battered and blizzard-driven. Just when you think you’re safe, the Running Wolf comes racing in from sea to land to blind you in its maw.
Enter the Pfiffmaklers, a travelling theatre troupe, who encounter a maker of phantoms; a disgraced archaeologist branded a saboteur; a man so fixated on nationalistic pride in his history he will go to any lengths to protect it.
And so the stage is set. There’s a Wind Museum, there’s a ruined chapel in the hills; there’s chalk cliffs and lighthouses.
What follows is an intricate plot fuelled by sudden dramatic scenes and eruptive violence, with a wide cast of places and people nailed down with economic precision.
It’s 1852, and the storm is about to begin…
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The Bookfinder Series
A second adventure for Ruan Peat and Greta Finnerty
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A BODY IS FOUND IN A SALT HEDGE WITH A CRATE OF PURLOINED BOOKS. RUAN PEAT IS ON THE CASE.
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HELA BELIEVES SHE HAS THE MEANS TO ACHIEVE HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENCE, IF ONLY SHE CAN GET HER HANDS ON IT. NO ONE WILL BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN HER WAY.
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GRETA FINNERTY IS SMUGGLING A DEAD ENGLISH OFFICER THROUGH FRENCH LINES, WITH URGENT NEWS FOR THE DUTCH AUTHORITIES.
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THREE STRANDS PULLING DEFTLY DRAWN CHARACTERS TOGETHER FROM REMOTE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINS, ANCIENT RUSSIAN BATTLES, IRISH AND FRENCH UPRISINGS, UNTIL ALL THREE STRANDS BECOME ONE IN THE EXCITING HISTORICAL ADVENTURE THAT IS THE JUGGLER’S BOX.
