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Christian Hayes

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Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

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Christian Hayes is the author of five novels: The Fat Detective, The Fat Detective in Love, The Fat Detective Disappears, The Glass Book and The Fading Man. He works within different genres depending on what each story requires.

He lives in London and is currently working on his next novel.

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Average rating: 3.54 · 1,284 ratings · 106 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fat Detective (Eugene Blake #1) 3.55 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fat Detective in Love (Eugene Blake #2) 3.51 avg rating — 116 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fat Detective Disappears (Eugene Blake #3) 3.66 avg rating — 101 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fading Man 3.32 avg rating — 44 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Indoors 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Book 2.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fat Detective Series #1-3 (Eugene Blake #1-3) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I’d got to the stage where I’d lost so much interest in what I was doing that I started to find it hard to know what I was doing. I’d promise numbers, reports and results and then ignore the tasks completely. When I would talk to other people about my work I would even bore myself.

It’s not like I could have gotten another job. I believed I was past my prime without anything new to offer. While to the outside world I might have passed for a man like any other but inside me ran a powerful river of anxiety, panic and hopelessness. At lunch I would sneak off to the pub at the quiet end of the high street for a pint to calm down the nerves.”
― Christian Hayes, The Fat Detective

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