Hello, there! I’m Nick Sweet. Look out for the first of my new series set in Spain, MURDER IN SEVILLE, which has just been published by Sharpe Books.

If you enjoyed Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano series, then give MURDER IN SEVILLE a try. You might just find you get hooked.

Follow Inspector Velázquez's footsteps as he tries to find the violent killer.

I'm from Bristol originally, but I immediately fell in love with Seville when I moved there some ten years ago.

Years passed before i felt I knew enough about Andalucían culture to write a book set in this part of the world.

As well as Seville, I've also written about a fictional town on the Costa del Sol, which I've called Bardino.

If you sit back and read my books, they will take you off the track most tourists usually tread.

Bardino is a great place to read about, but you really wouldn't want to live there.

And even a brief visit could prove hair-raising.

The same is true of certain parts of Seville.

I work hard to bring the Spanish settings in my books to life, so that the reader can breathe in the atmosphere and practically taste the tinto wine.

My books are a satisfying blend of mystery and suspense, with strong characters that will make you care about them.

Enter my world of pure entertainment.

PRAISE SO FAR FOR MURDER IN SEVILLE:

'The author builds both tension and intrigue... A must read for fans of intelligent crime fiction.' Thomas Waugh

PRAISE FOR NICK'S PREVIOUS BOOKS:

'The Long Siesta is a slice of the darkest noir transported to the sunny climate of Seville - a great character and a great book.' Mason Cross

'Nick Sweet's Inspector Velazquez is one of the most original and intriguing creations in crime fiction; a top Spanish cop with a very dark secret. THE LONG SIESTA offers an authentic slice of nineties Seville with murder as its backdrop. You can almost taste the albondigas and Fino!' Howard Linskey

'Sweet handles his twisting plot with all the panache of the Matador.' Caro Ramsay

'The Long Siesta is a full-blooded neo-noir, as gritty as any 1970s Hollywood thriller, and as colourful as the latest Mexican telenovela.' Nicholas Blincoe

'...highly readable... Recommended.' Paul Johnston

'If the second (in the series) was coming out tomorrow I'd say Hasta Mañana.' Douglas Skelton

'...an enthralling glimpse into an unfamiliar world. Confident and sharp, Inspector Velázquez is a complex man who knows what makes his beat in Seville tick.' Nick Quantrill

'...the fast-paced plot suggests Sweet's text would suit a big-screen makeover.' Matthew Hirtes in the Huffington Post

'Those who love a fast paced crime thriller with a flawed leading policeman will enjoy THE LONG SIESTA.' Linda's Book Bag

'This is an intelligent read which leaves the reader not knowing which way the characters are going to turn next as you're never 100 per cent sure who the good guys are.' The Hazardous Hippo blogspot

'One might have thought that Spanish-set crime was territory sewed up by the likes of Robert Wilson, but Nick Sweet proves to have the measure of the genre with THE LONG SIESTA. This concise novel is set in 1998 Seville. An elderly priest has been gruesomely killed, and Nick Sweet's protagonist Inspector Velázquez quickly finds himself with a slew of trouble involving Russian gangsters and further ecclesiastical murders. Velázquez proves to be an intriguing and idiosyncratic protagonist, and Sweet evokes his sultry locale with maximum vividness.' Barry Forshaw in Crime Time (an edited version of this review also appeared later in the year, in Barry Forshaw's guide to the best of British crime writing, Brit Noir).

Reviews for Nick's crime thriller, FLOWERS AT MIDNIGHT:

'A startling and intriguing crime story.' Quentin Bates

'...a can't put down page-turner. Nick Sweet is a rising star in crime fiction.' Gary C. King

'The tone is pure Elmore Leonard, with dimbulb villains, some honest coppers, a complex but still intelligible plot and a satisfying ending. This is not a book that prompts loud guffaws, but rather a series of continual smiles. Nick Sweet, we want more.' Professor Richard B. Schwartz (Writer & Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia)

'...a blistering pace with a firecracker plot and machine gun dialogue. If you like your crime fiction fast and furious, this is the one for you.' Rod Madocks

'Kinky sex, blackmail, murder, three million pounds and a gay psychoanalyst...this fast-paced London caper will have readers turning pages as Nick Sweet delivers FLOWERS AT MIDNIGHT.' Vince Lardo

Author Kenna McKinnon on Nick's crime thriller, BAD IN BARDINO:

'Fast paced and humorous yet dark, this book is a rival for Raymond Chandler's 'The Long Goodbye'...I couldn't find a single cliche in the story...this fast-paced thriller held my interest well into the night as I flipped the pages of my Kindle...'

Critical responses to my historical/literary novel, GEMINI GAMES:

'A novel that's both serious and funny. A mordant look at the state of Britain today.' D.M. Thomas

'I very much enjoyed the London-ness of GEMINI GAMES... Good stuff...there are too few accurate London novels.' Andrew O'Hagan

'I was impressed by the sympathy and integrity of the writing.' D.J. Taylor

Critic and novelist D.J. Taylor on Nick's historical novel, YOUNG HEARTS:

'I like Nick Sweet's writing, which is always deeply engaged with the subjects he chooses, intelligent in its approach and seriously interested in the difficulties of ordinary people trying to live their lives in the shadow of great events.'

A critical response to my short story, THE WOMAN OF HIS HEART, which I contributed to the anthology SUNSHINE NOIR :

'...And Nick Sweet's entry, so help me, with its straight-to-the-point storytelling and its wit, reminds me of nothing so much as Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op stories.' Peter Rozovsky in his introduction to the collection of stories entitled Sunshine Noir

Nick's short stories have appeared in two of collections edited by Maxim Jakubowski, The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Mango, 2021) and The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories (Robinson, 2015). Another of his short stories appeared in the collection, Sunshine Noir (White Sun Press, 2016). Nick's stories have also appeared in a number of small magazines, including the Evergreen Review.