Craig McDonald

Craig McDonald is an internationally best-selling novelist. His critically acclaimed Hector Lassiter series includes "Head Games," which was a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony, Gumshoe and Crimespree Magazine awards for best first novel. It was also released as a graphic novel by First Second Books.

Other Lassiter novels include "One True Sentence," "Forever's Just Pretend," "Toros & Torsos," "The Great Pretender," "Roll the Credits," "The Running Kind," "Print the Legend," "Death In The Face" and "Three Chords & the Truth."

A standalone thriller about illegal immigration, "El Gavilan," was published in autumn 2011 to a Publishers Weekly starred review and was selected for many year's best lists.

He is also an award-winning journalist and has published two volumes of author interviews, "Art in the Blood" and "Rogue Males."

In 2022, he launched a new series, this one featuring pulp magazine-style heroine Zana O'Savin in a pastiche of classic pulp fiction heroes such as Doc Savage and The Shadow. These include "The Blood Ogre," "The Mothman Menace," and "The Death Killers."