Literary influences As a child and a teenager, Grecian read the works of
C. S. Lewis,
Charles Dickens,
Lewis Carroll, and
Edgar Allan Poe. He later became a fan of crime fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as
Graham Greene,
Donald E. Westlake,
Ross Macdonald, and
John D. MacDonald. Other influences include
John Irving,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Michael Chabon, and
Stephen King.
Comics and graphic novels Grecian's first comic book work, released in 2006, was a collaboration with Canadian comic book artist and illustrator
Riley Rossmo on
Seven Sons, a graphic novel based on the anonymously written Chinese folktale
Ten Brothers known to be written around the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644). In 2007, he started work on
Proof, also with Riley Rossmo. NPR named this series one of the best books of 2009. Grecian and Rossmo started on their third project together,
Rasputin, in the fall of 2014. This series is a work of fiction based on the life of
Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was a mystical adviser in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in the early nineteen hundreds. In 2013, with fellow creators
B. Clay Moore,
Jeremy Haun, and Seth Peck, Grecian developed the anthology Bad Karma using a
Kickstarter campaign. Bad Karma is a hardcover comics, prose and art collection featuring five separate, inter-related creator-owned concepts.
Novels In May 2012 Grecian's debut novel
The Yard was released by
G. P. Putnam's Sons. This novel is the first in the Murder Squad Series. The second novel in the series,
The Black Country, was released in May 2013, then the third, ''The Devil's Workshop
in May 2014, the fourth, The Harvest Man
in May 2015, and the fifth, Lost and Gone Forever
in May 2016. The e-book The Blue Girl
is also a story of the Murder Squad and was released in June 2013. In April 2018 Grecian released the stand-alone book The Saint of Wolves and Butchers'' also published by
G. P. Putnam's Sons. In September 2023, Grecian released the novel
Red Rabbit, published by
Tor Books. The stand-alone sequel,
Rose of Jericho, will be released in March 2025 also by
Tor Books. == Bibliography ==