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. His writing has been compared to Graham Greene, Georges Simenon and John Le Carré. In an article about his Omar Yussef novels, L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.”
He is married to the American humourist Devorah Blachor and lives in Luxembourg.
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