Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around Benin, West Africa, and the Javier Falcón series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel The Company of Strangers and A Small Death In Lisbon, which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same award again in 2003 for The Blind Man of Seville, the first in the Javier Falcón series. The second novel in the series, The Silent and the Damned (titled: The Vanished Hands in the United States), won the 2006 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink.
The Javier Falcón series has been adapted for Sky television by Mammoth Screen titled Falcón with Marton Csokas in the title role.
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Bruce Medway series Instruments of Darkness – 1995 The Big Killing – 1996 Blood Is Dirt – 1997 A Darkening Stain – 1998
Javier Falcón series The Blind Man of Seville – 2003 The Silent and the Damned – 2004 (published as The Vanished Hands in the US) The Hidden Assassins – 2006 The Ignorance of Blood – 2009
Charles Boxer series Capital Punishment – 2013 You Will Never Find Me – 2014 Stealing People – 2015 Hear No Lies (not published in the UK)
Non-series novels A Small Death in Lisbon – 1999 The Company of Strangers – 2001
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