Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an

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fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from

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. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around

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, West Africa, and the Javier Falcón series, set largely in

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, Spain. He is also the author of the

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'' The Company of Strangers'' and '' A Small Death In Lisbon'', which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the

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in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same award again in 2003 for '' The Blind Man of Seville'', the first in the Javier Falcón series. The second novel in the series, '' The Silent and the Damned'' (titled: ''The Vanished Hands'' in the United States), won the 2006

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for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink. The Javier Falcón series has been adapted for

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in the title role.

Bibliography

Bruce Medway series # ''Instruments of Darkness'' – 1995 # ''The Big Killing'' – 1996 # ''Blood Is Dirt'' – 1997 # ''A Darkening Stain'' – 1998 Javier Falcón series # '' The Blind Man of Seville'' – 2003 # '' The Silent and the Damned'' – 2004 (published as ''The Vanished Hands'' in the US) # '' The Hidden Assassins'' – 2006 # ''

The Ignorance of Blood ''The Ignorance of Blood'' is the final novel in Robert Wilson's Javier Falcón series, set in Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of ...

'' – 2009 Charles Boxer series # ''Capital Punishment'' – 2013 # ''You Will Never Find Me'' – 2014 # ''Stealing People'' – 2015 Non-series novels * '' A Small Death in Lisbon'' – 1999 * ''The Company of Strangers'' – 2001

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Robert British crime fiction writers 1957 births Living people British male novelists 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists Alumni of the University of Oxford British expatriates in Portugal 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British male writers