Richard Crompton

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Richard Crompton

| birth_place = Manchester

| occupation = Author, journalist

| language = English

| nationality = British

| genre = Crime fiction

| notableworks = Hour of the Red God (US)/The Honey Guide (UK), Hell's Gate

| website = {{URL|richardcrompton.com}}

}}

Richard Crompton is a Manchester-born British journalist, and author of crime fiction featuring Mollel, a Maasai detective in Kenya.{{cite news|last1=Vincent|first1=Alice|title=Richard Crompton: 'Kenyans tell me, this is the story of our city'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10334128/Richard-Crompton-Kenyans-tell-me-this-is-the-story-of-our-city.html|accessdate=19 January 2017|publisher=Telegraph UK|date=26 Sep 2013}}

Crompton, a former journalist for the BBC, moved to Kenya in 2005{{cite web|title=Author's bio|url=http://www.richardcrompton.com/bio|accessdate=19 January 2017}} {{dead link|date=March 2023}} with his wife, a human rights lawyer, who took up a job to prosecute the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.{{cite web|title=Profile of Richard Crompton|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2062482.Richard_Crompton|website=Goodreads|accessdate=19 January 2017}}

In 2007 Crompton covered the post-election violence in Kenya for CNBC.{{cite web|title=Murder in Kenya: PW Talks With Richard Crompton|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56473-murder-in-kenya-pw-talks-with-richard-crompton.html|website=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=19 January 2017}}

In 2010 Crompton won the Daily Telegraph ghost story competition with his short story inspired by Facebook titled Friends.

In 2013 his first novel was published as The Honey Guide in the UK/Commonwealth and Hour of the Red God in the US/Canada. The novel features Detective Mollel, a Maasai police detective with the Kenyan CID.