Chris Lloyd

Chris Lloyd writes the Occupation series, featuring Eddie Giral, a French police detective in Paris under Nazi rule. The first book in the series, The Unwanted Dead, won the HWA Gold Crown Award for best historical novel of the year, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award, was a Times Best Book of the Month and was Waterstone’s Welsh Book of the Month. The second, Paris Requiem, was a Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023. The third in the series, Banquet of Beggars, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award. The Art of Occupation, the fourth book in the series, sees Eddie trying to find a missing art collection and discovering the widescale theft of books.