Tony Black was born in Australia and grew up in Scotland and Ireland.
 
Based in Edinburgh he is an award-winning journalist, editor, and novelist. His journalism has appeared in the UK national press and his short fiction in a variety of publications.
 
He is the author of the novels: PAYING FOR IT, GUTTED, LOSS, LONG TIME DEAD, TRUTH LIES BLEEDING,  MURDER MILE, THE STORM WITHOUT, HIS FATHER'S SON and the story collection LAST ORDERS.
 
Coming in 2014 is THE INGLORIOUS DEAD, THE LAST TIGER and ARTEFACTS OF THE DEAD.


"Tony Black is my favourite British crime writer."
-Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
 
"Powerful, focused, and intense ... and then it gets better. Get your money down early on this young man - he's dead serious and deadly accurate."
-Andrew Vachss, author of Hard Candy
 
''Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime fiction, yes, that good.''  
-Ken Bruen, author of London Boulevard

"Tony Black is one of those excellent perpetrators of Scottish noir ... a compelling and convincing portrayer of raw emotions in a vicious milieu."
-The Times

"Comparisons with Rebus will be obvious. But that would be too easy ... Black has put his defiant, kick-ass stamp on his leading man, creating a character that deftly carries the story through every razor-sharp twist and harrowing turn."
-Daily Record
 
"At the front of the Tartan Noir pack ... a superior offering in an already crowded Scottish crime market."
-The Big Issue
 
"Black really excels with his depiction of Edinburgh’s low-life scum ... an accomplished and impressive piece of Tartan Noir."
-The List
 
"An authentic yet unique voice, Tony Black shows why he is leading the pack in British crime fiction today. Atmospherically driven, the taut and sparse prose is as near to the bone you are ever likely to encounter in crime noir. Powerful."
-New York Journal of Books