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Adam Croft

Adam Croft is an English crime fiction writer. He is a self-published author and is an advocate of independent publishing.

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Adam Croft
Born
Dunstable, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
GenreCrime, thriller, mystery
Notable worksKnight & Culverhouse, Kempston Hardwick mysteries

Adam Croft is an English crime fiction writer. He is a self-published author1234 and is an advocate of independent publishing.

Work

Writing

Croft has written more than 20 books, including the Knight & Culverhouse, crime thrillers and Kempston Hardwick mysteries. He appeared on the USA Today bestseller list twice, with the Kempston Hardwick box set and his 2015 psychological thriller Her Last Tomorrow.56 Her Last Tomorrow has sold around 150,000 units so far in the UK, around 500,000 including international sales, and was on track to sell more than £1M worth of books in 2017.78 He has also had several plays published with Lazy Bee Scripts.9

An advocate of self-publishing, Croft has spoken out about what he sees as the negative sides of traditional publishing.10 In 2012, he denounced crime novelist Sue Grafton for calling self-published authors "lazy".11

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Bedfordshire in March 2018 "in recognition of his outstanding services to literature".12

In 2020, he announced he was launching a new crime series set in Rutland.13

Personal life

Adam Croft lives in Flitwick, Bedfordshire.7

Bibliography

Bibliography

Knight & Culverhouse

  • Too Close for Comfort (2011)
  • Guilty as Sin (2011)
  • Jack Be Nimble (2015)
  • Rough Justice (2015)
  • In Too Deep (2016)
  • In the Name of the Father (2016)
  • With A Vengeance (2017)
  • Dead & Buried (2018)
  • In Plain Sight (2019)
  • Snakes & Ladders (2021)

Rutland crime series

  • What Lies Beneath (2020)
  • On Borrowed Time (2020)
  • In Cold Blood (28 May 2021)
  • Kiss of Death (2022)
  • Moment of Truth (2022)
  • No Way Out (2024)

Kempston Hardwick Mysteries

  • Exit Stage Left (2011)
  • The Westerlea House Mystery (2013)
  • Death Under the Sun (2014)
  • The Thirteenth Room (2015)
  • The Wrong Man (2019)

Psychological thrillers

  • Her Last Tomorrow (2015)
  • Only the Truth (2017)
  • In Her Image (2017)
  • Tell Me I'm Wrong (2018)
  • The Perfect Lie (2019)
  • Closer To You (2020)

Sam Barker

  • Absolution (2019)
  • Betrayal (2020)

Short stories

  • Gone (2016)
  • Love You To Death (2017)
  • The Harder They Fall (2017)

Plays

  • Sleeping Dogs (2014)
  • Curtain Up! (2015)
  • Home, Sweet Home (2015)
References

References

  1. "'Biggest-selling' self-published book of 2016 lands Amazon deal | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  2. "Adam Croft: Books and Tips from a Bestseller | The Reading Lists". The Reading Lists. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. Pulham, Alice (26 January 2019). "Meet this independent author who at one point was outselling JK Rowling". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  4. Nachiappan, Arthi. "Authors write their own happy ending with success of self‑published ebooks". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  5. "Knight & Culverhouse Box Set". USA TODAY. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  6. "Her Last Tomorrow". USA TODAY. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  7. Flood, Alison (2 June 2016). "From paying the bills, to £2,000 a day: making a killing from self-publishing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  8. "'Biggest-selling' self-published book of 2016 lands Amazon deal | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  9. "'Adam Croft's author page| Lazy Bee Scripts". www.lazybeescripts.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  10. "How to succeed as a self-published author – as it happened". The Guardian. 13 June 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  11. Flood, Alison (29 August 2012). "Self-published authors react with anger to 'laziness' charge". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  12. "Graduations continue at Bedfordshire – beds.ac.uk | University of Bedfordshire".
  13. "Rutland is at the centre of crime fiction series". Stamford Mercury. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.