Hobbs' debut Ghostman, he wrote during his senior year of college, made him the youngest person ever to win a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. And as his friend I'm doubly devastated."īill Scott-Kerr, publisher at Transworld, said of Hobbs it was "too upsetting to contemplate what he might have gone on to achieve", as "a new shining talent on the crime writing scene". Roger accomplished so much as a writer in so little time, and his future was sure to be extraordinary in ways we'll now never know. Gary Fisketjon, Hobbs' editor at Knopf, said in a statement: "It is is a shocking, tragic loss. American thriller writer Roger Hobbs, author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games (Transworld), has died, aged 28, after an overdose.
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