Adult Thrillers
Unholy Trinity
Shadow Chasers
Genesis II
Flash Point
Sleeper
Enemy Within
Knife Edge
Paganini's Ghost
Out of Print
Paul Adam has written eleven critically-acclaimed thrillers for adults. His books have sold widely around the world, have been translated into several foreign languages and are now available as e-books.
He is also the author of the Max Cassidy Series of thrillers for children. The first book in this series, Escape from Shadow Island, has been published in both the UK and the USA.
Escape from Shadow Island won the
Salford Children's Book Award 2010
and was shortlisted for 4 other awards.
Jaws of Death, the second book in the Max Cassidy Series, was published in the UK on 4th August 2011. Attack at Dead Man's Bay, the third book in the series, was published in the UK on 5th January 2012.
(Please see Children's Books for more information)
Paganini's Ghost, Paul's most recent book for adults, was published in the UK in October 2011 (by Endeavour Publishing) and in the USA in January 2010 (by Minotaur Books). This is the sequel to his best-selling murder-mystery, Sleeper (USA title, The Rainaldi Quartet) about Cremona violin maker, Gianni Castiglione, and his detective friend, Antonio Guastafeste. In Paganini’s Ghost, Gianni and Antonio return to investigate more mysterious deaths in a tantalising story of love, deception and greed. If you enjoyed their earlier adventure, you will be delighted by this new tale.
Read an interview with Paul Adam about his Gianni Castiglione mysteries and other novels on the Scene of the Crime blog...
Paul's other books for adults have dealt with such diverse topics as the secretive links between people smuggling, illegal agricultural labour and Britain's supermarkets (Knife Edge), genetically modified crops (Genesis II), cigarette smuggling in the European Union (Shadow Chasers), Chinese oppression in Tibet (Flash Point; USA title, Oracle Lake), corruption within the Vatican (Unholy Trinity) and the 21st Century surveillance society in which we live (Enemy Within).
In the USA Paul's most recent publications are Paganini's Ghost, The Rainaldi Quartet [UK title, Sleeper] and Oracle Lake [UK title, Flash Point].
Paul Adam has also written television and film scripts. He lives in Sheffield with his wife and two sons.