William Shaw works as a journalist and writer in the US and in the UK. One of his earlier works is the 1999 book Westsiders: Stories of the Boys in the Hood,The Guardian, 17 Jan 2000 which chronicles the attempts of a group of Los Angelenos to become successful hip hop artists.
Shaw's police novel Salt Lane (May 2018) is the first in a new series which features DS Alexandra Cupidi. The novel The Birdwatcher (2016) is set before the events of this book.
William Shaw lives in Brighton, United Kingdom.
Bibliography
Non-fiction Travellers (1994) Spying in Guru Land: Inside Britain's Cults (1995) Westsiders: Stories of the Boys in the Hood (1999) A Superhero for Hire: True Stories from the Small Ads (2005) 41 Places – 41 Stories (2007) DS Cathal Breen and WPC Helen Tozer A Song from Dead Lips [US title: She's Leaving Home] (2013) A House of Knives [US title: The Kings of London] (2014) A Book of Scars [US title: A Song for the Brokenhearted] (2015) Sympathy for the Devil [US title: Play with Fire] (2017) Standalone Novel featuring DS Cupidi The Birdwatcher (2016) DS Alex Cupidi Salt Lane (2018) Deadland (2019) Grave's End (2020) The Trawlerman (2021) The Wild Swimmers (2024) Writing as GW Shaw Dead Rich (2022) The Conspirators (2023)
References
http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/william-shaw http://www.41places.org/
External links – official site William Shaw at Bloomsbury Publishing A House of Knives review at Upcoming4.me Write Now with Scrivener, Episode no. 42: William Shaw, Author of Crime Fiction and Adventure Thrillers with Kirk McElhearn (4 September 2024)