THE TELEGRAPH SAYS: COLIN BATEMAN UP THERE WITH DICKENS, AGATHA CHRISTIE AND ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

This weekend, on Saturday 23rd February, The Daily Telegraph ran a feature on 'TOP 50 CRIME WRITERS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE'. In amongst crime writing greats such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, Ruth Rendall, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers and GK Chesterton, one author who stood out as being one of the only contemporary crime writers on there, was Headline author Colin Bateman. Colin, who is now published controversially as simply 'Bateman', has written over 17 crime novels including 'Murphy's Law', which became best known for the television series starring James Nesbitt, playing the role of Bateman's most popular protagonist 'Dan Starkey'.

Jake Kerridge of The Telegraph said: 'Any appearance by Bateman's regular protagonist, journalist Dan Starkey, heralds the imminent death in amusing fashion of half the population of Belfast. Comic thrillers that are actually comic and thrilling.' For the full article please click here.

Bateman's new novel Orpheus Rising is out on 22nd March, £17.99HB.

ORPHEUS RISING: LOVE, ROCKETS & A BLOODY GREAT FISH. BATEMAN IS THE NEW MASTER OF DARKLY COMIC CRIME- AND HIS BRAND NEW NOVEL WILL TAKE YOU TO HELL AND BACK!

Everyone LOVES BATEMAN- 'a writer whose crime novels are funny as well as gripping- hard to pull off' Ian Rankin

Praise for Bateman's previous novel I Predict A Riot:
‘superb comic talent….he delivers an extraordinary mix of plots and characters... colourful, zany, absurd and surreal’ The Times

‘diverting entertainment….sometimes brutal, often blackly humorous and always terrific’ Observer

‘Bateman writes with sympathy and humour’ Daily Telegraph

‘Colin’s latest foray into Belfast’s rapidly-diminishing criminal underworld is a riot of colour & absurdity, where even the bad guys are strangely loveable…’ Mirror

‘Dark and witty’ Zoo

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