Robert Wilson (born
1957) is a British crime-writer currently resident in
Portugal. He is the son of an
RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in
English from
Oxford. Wilson is the author of the
Bruce Medway series, set on the
Gold Coast of Africa, and the
Javier Falcon series, set largely in
Seville,
Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel
The Company of Strangers and
A Small Death In Lisbon, which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the
CWA Gold Dagger in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same award again in 2003 for
The Blind Man of Seville, the first in the Javier Falcon series. The second novel in the series,
The Silent and the Damned (titled:
The Vanished Hands in the
U.S.), won the 2006
Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink.
