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Leigh Russell
My Geraldine Steel crime series has sold over 1.5 million copies and reached #1 overall on amazon. So far 19 books are available, published by No Exit Press, winner of the CWA Best Crime and Mystery Dagger Award 2019. Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award, and the CWA Dagger in the Library, Geraldine Steel books have also twice been Finalists for the People’s Book Prize.
March 2023 sees the launch of Poppy’s Mystery Tales, which starts with Barking up the Right Tree. This is a cosy crime series featuring a small dog. Barking Mad is published in July 2023.
My reading is wide ranging, and I also enjoy writing in different genres, with two stand alone psychological thrillers, a dystopian novel, and a historical novel published in 2021.
In addition to running occasional creative writing courses, I support emerging writers with the CWA Criminal Critiques service which I set up and coordinate, and as Chair of the judging panel for the Crime Writers Association’s prestigious Debut Dagger Award. I work in schools and universities as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, delivering writing workshops and offering one to one support with writing skills.
CWA Awards
- CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger – Shortlisted
- CWA Dagger in the Library - Longlisted
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Books by Leigh Russell


Barking up the Right Tree

Geraldine Steel series

Cut Short

Dead End

Road Closed

Death Bed

Stop Dead

Geraldine Steel series – Cut Short, Road Closed, Dead End, Death Bed, Stop Dead, Fatal Act, Killer Plan, Murder Ring, Deadly Alibi

Cold Sacrifice

Ian Peterson series – Cold Sacrifice, Race to Death, Blood Axe

Lucy Hall series – Journey to Death, Girl in Danger, Wrong Suspect

Killer Plan

Murder Ring

Deadly Alibi

Class Murder

Death Rope

Rogue Killer

Deathly Affair

The Adulterer’s Wife

Suspicion

RACHEL’S STORY

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