Two-Way Split has been long-listed for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award. You have until June 17th to vote for your favourite.

Meet The Author

"Guthrie’s work stands up against the best the genre has to offer. His prose is clinically efficient, his storytelling consummate, his dialogue sparkles and snaps on the page, and his blend of black humour and breathless action is impossible to put down."
The Herald

Allan Guthrie (photo by Mary Reagan) was born in Orkney, but has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult life. He is married to Donna. His first novel, TWO-WAY SPLIT, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. His second novel, KISS HER GOODBYE, was nominated for  Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe awards. His third, HARD MAN, has just been published. Allan is a commissioning editor for PointBlank Press and a literary agent with Jenny Brown Associates.
Contact Allan

Representation
Mark Stanton, Jenny Brown Associates ([email protected])

The April Newsletter is now out.

Hard Man Author (Edinburgh Evening News Feature Article)

Maestro Of The Mean Streets (Scotsman Feature)

"a very good writer...seek him out" Ian Rankin

"Dark and splendid" The Guardian

"Another of the strongest contemporary trends builds on the traditions of literary noir: for example, since 2000, we’ve had John Williams’s Cardiff Dead (2000); the second and third novels in James Ellroy’s ‘Underworld USA’ series, The Cold Six Thousand (2001) and Police Gazette (2002); Carol Anne Davis’s Kiss It Away (2003); Jason Starr’s Twisted City (2004); Ken Bruen’s fourth Jack Taylor novel, The Dramatist (2004); and David Peace’s Nineteen Eighty Three (2004); and some of the most interesting offerings of independent press imprints such as Hard Case Crime and Wildside’s Point Blank include the dark and twisted work of newly emerging novelists like Charlie Williams (Deadfolks, out 2004), Ray Banks (The Big Blind, 2004) and Allan Guthrie (Two-Way Split in 2004, Kiss Her Goodbye due out in 2005)."
Lee Horsley, Twentieth Century Crime Fiction (OUP, August 2005)

"His first two books remind me in their way of a wry version of the original Get Carter...There's an off-hand violence and downscale amorality that give Guthrie's books the kind of blackjack charm and smirky melancholy his people need to survive." Ed Gorman

"I don't know what's going on over there in Ireland and the U.K. Maybe it's something in the water. If it is, I wish I had some of it to drink, myself. (Maybe it's not the water.) Anyway, there are a lot of guys over there who are really bringing noir and hardboiled novels back to their roots, but they're doing it in their own way and in their own styles. Allan Guthrie is right out there in the front of the pack, and if you missed his outstanding debut novel, Two-Way Split, it's time you read it right now. And then, next March, you'll want to be right there at your local newsstand (assuming there is such a thing these days) to grab Kiss Her Goodbye."
Bill Crider

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