Award-winning historical fiction and crime novels
Historical crime
Completely authentic and suspenseful
Vanity Fair
A stunning sense of place and memorable characters
The Sunday Telegraph
Master of the genre
Le Figaro
Full of humanity
Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse novels
Contemporary crime
About Matt Rees
Matt Rees is the award-winning author of nine novels published in 23 languages. He has been compared to Graham Greene, Georges Simenon and Henning Mankell. In an article about his Omar Yussef novels, L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.”
To research his novel about Mozart’s sister, he learned to play the piano. For his Caravaggio novel, he studied oil painting and fought with a rapier. His next novel is set in Jerusalem, where he lived for 20 years. He is married to the American humorist Devorah Blachor.
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