While all his books quite impressive and amazing, The Yard, the Black Country and The Devil’s Workshop stand out among the best. At least one novel in the “Scotland Yard Murder Squad” series has been recognized among the best books for the last three years in a row. While the comic book series stood out in 2009, Grecian has excelled more in mystery and crime fiction. The Black Country and The Devil’s Workshop in 2013, 20 awards, respectively. He also received the Kansas Notable Book Award for The Yard. In 2014, The Black country novel was rated among the top five mystery titles earning Grecian the Dilys Award by the Independent Mystery booksellers Association(IMBA). He was also nominated for the Barry Award after The Yard was ranked the Best First novel in the same year. In this award he was recognized for excellence in the area of mystery fiction by a group of journalists and book critics across the United States. In 2013, Grecian was nominated for The Strand Awards for The Yard, which ranked the second best debut novel after A Land More Kind Than Home By Wiley Cash. These include The Yard, The Devil’s Workshop, The Black Country, Lost and Gone Forever, The Harvest Man and The Blue Girl. While the comic books were mostly co-authored, the “Scotland Yard Murder Squad” novels are all written by him. In 2013, Grecian collaborated with Jeremy Haun, Clay Moore and Seth Peck in developing Bad Carma, a comic art collection of five separate concepts owned by their respective creators.

The two began a third book project, Rasputin in 2014. The proof was named among the best-selling books in 2009 by National Public Radio(NPR). Grecian wrote his first book in 2006 in collaboration with Riley Rossmo, a Canadian illustrator and comic book artist who has since been a coauthor of the Proof series that started airing in 2007.

The Black Country by Alex Grecian