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About Iain Ryan

Iain Ryan grew up in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. He predominantly writes in the hardboiled/noir genre and his work has been previously published by Akashic Books Online (New York) and Crime Factory (Melbourne).

Four Days, his first novel, saw release November 2015 via Broken River Books. The following year the book was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writing Association's Ned Kelly Award (Best Debut Fiction). He has subsequently self-published three novels (Drainland, Harsh Recovery and Civil Twilight) with a fourth novel titled The Student available now from Echo / Bonnier Publishing.

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The Student 16 Jun, 2017

by Iain Ryan

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Do bad people look like good people, like friends and brothers and boyfriends and students, until they have their hands around your throat? All of these men standing around me, drinks in hand, backs to this screen… smiling, laughing, flirting, and they look harmless. But any one of them could be something else now: rapist, murderer, spree shooter, torturer, paedophile. I try to picture them sprayed with blood and gore and it’s easy. I can do it, mentally. All of these guys could be him because all of these guys were just like him, right up until he…

Gatton, Queensland. 1994. Nate is a student, dealing weed on the side. A girl called Maya Kibby is dead. No one knows who killed her. Nate needs to refresh his supply, but his friend and dealer is missing. Nate is high. He is alone. Being hunted for the suitcase he’s found and haunted by its contents. And as things turn from bad to worse, Nate uncovers far more than he bargained for.

The Student is high-paced, hardboiled regional noir: fresh, gritty, unnerving, with a stark and lonely beauty.

'A terrific neo-noir from an exciting new voice in Australian crime fiction' – Adrian McKinty

‘The Student takes the campus novel and mines within it a dark seam of violence, deception and suspense in prose that burns with a fierce propulsion’
David Whish-Wilson

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What Living And Dying Is Like: Two Short Stories 30 Nov, 2022

by Iain Ryan

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“One of Australia’s most interesting next-gen crime writers.”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“Iain Ryan has learned the lessons of the modern maestros James Ellroy, Ken Bruen and James Sallis, but his poetry and cadence is completely Australian.”
PETER DOYLE

An ex-con circles back to L.A. and knows it is a mistake. Elsewhere, in Vegas, a restless kid buys a mysterious, stolen guitar. Two characters, worlds apart, but drawn together by the same buried history. Spread across two connected stories, Iain Ryan’s What Living And Dying Is Like is about regret and hard-won recovery.

Iain Ryan grew up in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. Author of FOUR DAYS (2015), THE STUDENT (2017) and THE SPIRAL (2020).

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The Spiral: The gripping and utterly unpredictable thriller 10 Dec, 2020

by Iain Ryan, Ian Rogers

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ENTER THE SPIRAL.
FIND THE TRUTH.

The utterly original and brilliantly gripping thriller for fans of BEHIND HER EYES by Sarah Pinborough and THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE by Stuart Turton.

'Gripping, inventive and utterly unpredictable' - Alex Pavesi, bestselling author of EIGHT DETECTIVES.
'Ambitious and well executed' - GUARDIAN
'[A] rollercoaster crime noir thriller' - INDEPENDENT
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Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice in a targetted attack by a colleague, her quiet existence is shattered in an instant.

With her would-be murderer dead, no one can give Erma the answers she needs to move on from her trauma. Why her? Why now?

So begins Erma's quest for the truth - and a dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart of darkness.

With all the inventiveness of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and the raw brutality of Mulholland Drive, THE SPIRAL is a unique crime thriller with killer twists - and 2021's most jaw-dropping ending.
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WHAT YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE SPIRAL:

'I suspect this is one that I'll be thinking about for some time' - ALEX PAVESI, author of EIGHT DETECTIVES

'A frenzied, twisted fever dream of a book' - MIRANDA DICKINSON, author of OUR STORY

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