Matt Hilton is the author of 13 'Joe Hunter' thrillers and accompanying short stories, 10 'Tess Grey and Po Villere' thrillers, and is the author of the 'A Cautionary Tale' horror series including "Wicked Jenny", "The Executioner Box" and 2026's "The Bogeyman". In addition Matt has published horror/suspense/action novels 'Darkest Hour', 'Dominion', 'Preternatural', 'The Shadows Call', 'Wildfire', 'The Girl on Shattered Rock', 'Darke', 'Death Pact, 'The Girl in the Smoke' and a YA fantasy 'Mark Darrow and the Stealer of Souls'. He is also the author of the Sword and Sorcery hero -- Korvix the axe-warrior -- and has also published several other characters in the pulp or action tradition. Matt is a high ranking martial artist, and in his day fought in the fledgling MMA scene in the UK, and was Northern Ju-Jitsu Champion 2000. He has been a cop, a detective and a private security specialist, all of which lend an authenticity to the action scenes in his books. He has been writing since he was a small child, and is also an avid reader of crime, horror and thriller books, all of which inspire his writing style. Although seen as crime thrillers, Matt's Joe Hunter series combine elements from all of those genres, so is slightly different in flavour than many others in the same category. He is a huge fan of the pulp masters, and hopes to emulate their fast pace and derring do. Matt is the first to say that his books will never win a literary prize, but they're not intended to: they're there for pure entertainment. Saying that Matt's first novel, Dead Men's Dust, was shortlisted for Debut Thriller of the Year 2009 by the International Thriller Writers' Organisation (ITW) and was named as a Daily Telegraph Thriller of the Year 2009, and in 2013 was a Kindle UK top ten best seller. His books have been translated into German, Italian, Romanian and Bulgarian, and are published throughout the UK (and territories) by Hodder and Stoughton, Canelo, Joffe Books and Severn House,, and in the USA (and territories) by William Morrow and Co, Canelo, Joffe Books and by Down and Out Books.
