There isn’t much information on Joe Stein. A press release from his original publisher said: ‘Getting information out of Joe Stein is like getting blood out of the proverbial stone.’

However, the following biography sketch was taken from a radio interview in 2008.

Joe Stein was born in London in the 1960s and educated (just about) in North London. His first job was in a scrap-yard, stripping copper out of electrical cables. He left there before it was raided by Customs and Excise and has been trying to stay out of trouble ever since. He admits to being an ex-musician and sometime amateur boxer and won’t say much else. He has worked in factories, warehouses, markets, spent two days on a building site before he realised it wasn’t the place for anyone with even mild vertigo and worked for over ten years in security and as a bodyguard, luckily getting married and being told to get a ‘proper’ job before the government decided to license the security industry. His training manual for bodyguards is now therefore out of date and a collectors’ item.

He always wanted to try to write and although his first book took many years to complete, he now has a dozen short stories and three novels to his name. He still lives in North London and has a full time day job to fit around the rest of his life.

There is an in depth interview with Joe on the website The Truth About Books, at: www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/authors/interviews/page_2.html

Another interview with Joe, with questions from the author Sue Guiney and focussing on his third book, is at: http://sueguineyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/writing-about-russian-mafia.html

Joe’s third Garron novel, ‘That Twisted Thing Called Truth’ is published in Nov 2011

Joe is a full member of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA).

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