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William Ryan

Biography

William Ryan

William Ryan is the author of THE HOLY THIEF, which was a Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel and shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Born in London, Ryan attended Trinity College, Dublin and completed his Masters in Creative Writing at St. Andrews University. THE DARKENING FIELD is his second novel.

Books by William Ryan

The Darkening Field
by William Ryan - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev of Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia is bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of a loyal young party member who supposedly had an illicit intimate relationship with the party director. 

The Holy Thief
by William Ryan - Fiction, Mystery

In 1936, Stalin’s Great Terror is beginning in Moscow. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the alter for all to see. Captain Alexei Korolev investigates, and finds himself in a dark Soviet underworld.