William Shaw works as a journalist and writer in the US and in the UK. One of his earlier works is the 1999 book Westsiders: Stories of the Boys in the Hood,^[1] which chronicles the attempts of a group of Los Angelenos to become successful hip hop artists.

Shaw's police novel Salt Lane (May 2018) is the first in a new series which features DS Alexandra Cupidi.^[2] The novel The Birdwatcher (2016) is set before the events of this book.

William Shaw lives in Brighton, United Kingdom.

Non-fiction

• Travellers (1994)
• Spying in Guru Land: Inside Britain's Cults (1995)
• Westsiders: Stories of the Boys in the Hood (1999)
• A Superhero for Hire: True Stories from the Small Ads (2005)
• 41 Places – 41 Stories (2007)

DS Cathal Breen and WPC Helen Tozer

• A Song from Dead Lips [US title: She's Leaving Home] (2013)
• A House of Knives [US title: The Kings of London] (2014)
• A Book of Scars [US title: A Song for the Brokenhearted] (2015)
• Sympathy for the Devil [US title: Play with Fire] (2017)

Standalone Novel featuring DS Cupidi

• The Birdwatcher (2016)

DS Alex Cupidi

• Salt Lane (2018)
• Deadland (2019)
• Grave's End (2020)
• The Trawlerman (2021)
• The Wild Swimmers (2024)

Writing as GW Shaw

• Dead Rich (2022)
• The Conspirators (2023)

• http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/william-shaw
• http://www.41places.org/

• William Shaw – official site
• William Shaw at Bloomsbury Publishing
• A House of Knives review at Upcoming4.me
• Write Now with Scrivener, Episode no. 42: William Shaw, Author of Crime Fiction and Adventure Thrillers with Kirk McElhearn (4 September 2024)