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Caffeine Nights Publishing is home to some of the most compelling voices in crime, thriller, horror, and steampunk fiction. Discover the minds behind the darkness.

Victor Ashmore

Victor Ashmore writes visceral crime fiction set in rain-soaked northern cities where corruption runs deeper than the gutters. His debut novel Cold Ledger was praised for its unflinching moral ambiguity. He is a former investigative journalist with a talent for making readers deeply uncomfortable.

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Mara Voss

Mara Voss crafts psychological thrillers that burrow under the skin and refuse to leave. Her novels explore the fragile boundary between obsession and love, often set in isolated European towns. Readers describe her prose as "elegant dread distilled into sentences."

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Edmund Crale

Edmund Crale is the architect of the beloved Ironveil Chronicles, a steampunk series set in a gaslit empire on the brink of mechanical revolution. His world-building is meticulous, his villains are charming, and his heroes are deeply flawed. He lives in Edinburgh and collects antique pocket watches.

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Selene Drax

Selene Drax writes horror that is rooted in folklore and the terror of the familiar made strange. Her short story collection The Hollow Season won the British Dark Fiction Award two years running. She draws on her background in cultural anthropology to give her monsters genuine mythological weight.

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Callum Frey

Callum Frey is a crime writer whose detective series follows a disgraced forensic accountant turned reluctant investigator through the financial underworld of modern London. His plots are labyrinthine, his dialogue razor-sharp, and his sense of place is second to none. The series has sold over 200,000 copies across Europe.

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Isolde Marsh

Isolde Marsh writes steampunk adventure with a feminist edge, placing her heroines at the helm of airships, automaton workshops, and political conspiracies. Her Brass & Bone trilogy is a staple of the genre and has been optioned for television. She is also a practicing mechanical engineer.

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Dorian Hext

Dorian Hext specialises in slow-burn horror that prioritises atmosphere over shock, drawing comparisons to Shirley Jackson and early Stephen King. His novel The Patience of Rot is considered a modern classic of British horror. He writes exclusively by hand and transcribes his manuscripts at midnight.

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Nadia Verne

Nadia Verne writes international thrillers that span continents and intelligence agencies, with a particular focus on Eastern European espionage and organised crime. Her protagonist, a retired Interpol analyst named Petra Solak, has appeared in five novels to date. Verne spent twelve years working in international law before turning to fiction.

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Jasper Quill

Jasper Quill is the pen name of a duo who write darkly comic crime capers set in the crumbling English seaside towns they grew up in. Their books are beloved for their eccentric cast of criminals, their pitch-black humour, and their surprisingly moving endings. The Saltwick Bay series is now in its seventh instalment.

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Rowena Blackthorn

Rowena Blackthorn writes gothic horror with a strong sense of place, her novels set in decaying manor houses, flooded villages, and fog-bound moors across the British Isles. Her work has been described as "Thomas Hardy rewritten by a ghost." She is currently working on a novel set entirely within a single lighthouse during a winter storm.

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Theo Carver

Theo Carver writes steampunk noir — a genre he arguably invented — blending gaslit detective fiction with clockwork dystopia and class warfare. His Cogsworth Investigations series follows a one-armed private detective in a city powered entirely by human labour disguised as machinery. The series is dark, inventive, and relentlessly political.

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Lyra Sinclair

Lyra Sinclair writes body horror and cosmic dread with a literary sensibility that has earned her comparisons to Carmen Maria Machado and Jeff VanderMeer. Her debut What the Marrow Knows was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award. She is interested in the horror of transformation — physical, psychological, and societal.

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