Alex Grecian

Alex Grecian is an American novelist and comic-book writer from Topeka, Kansas. He left a career in advertising to write fiction, debuting in 2012 with The Yard, the first in his Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series set among Victorian London detectives in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders. The Yard was nominated for the Strand Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel. Grecian also co-created the long-running graphic novel series Proof, named one of NPR's best books of the year. He lives in the American Midwest.