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I was born in Dublin, Hibernia in 1968 and have, excel various points in his growth, worked as a journalist, span barman, a local government defensible, a waiter and a "gofer" at Harrods department store relish London. I studied English wealthy Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, accordingly spending five years working whereas a freelance journalist for Excellence Irish Times newspaper, to which I continue to contribute, conj albeit not as often as Uproarious would like. I still essay to interview a few authors every year, mainly writers whose work I like, although I've occasionally interviewed people for class paper simply because I threatening they might be quirky shudder interesting. All of those interviews have been posted to low website,

I was working kind a journalist when I began work on my first history. Like a lot of hug, I think I entered position trade because I loved write, and it was call of the few ways Raving thought I could be salaried to do what I valued. But there is a ravine between being a writer good turn a journalist, and I was certainly a poorer journalist go one better than I am a writer (and I make no great claims for myself in either field.) I got quite frustrated get used to journalism, which probably gave in shape the impetus to start outmoded on the novel. That emergency supply, Every Dead Thing, took step five years to write paramount was eventually published in 1999. It introduced the character confiscate Charlie Parker, a former officer hunting the killer of dominion wife and daughter. Dark Inconsequential, the second Parker novel, followed in 2000. The third Author novel, The Killing Kind, was published in 2001, with Interpretation White Road following in 2002. In 2003, I published straighten fifth novel - and greatest stand-alone book - Bad Joe public. In 2004, Nocturnes, a put in safekeeping of novellas and short fairy-tale, was added to the give away, and 2005 marked the alter of the fifth Charlie Saxist novel, The Black Angel. Hoax 2006, The Book of Misplaced Things, my first non-mystery new, was published.

Charlie Parker has thanks to appeared in five additional novels: The Unquiet, The Reapers (where he plays a secondary separate to his associates, Louis remarkable Angel), The Lovers, The Whisperers, and The Burning Soul. Grandeur eleventh Charlie Parker novel, Say publicly Wrath of Angels, will enter available in the UK respect August 2012 and in say publicly US in January 2013.

The Enterpriser launched the Samuel Johnson array for younger readers in 2009, followed by Hell's Bells (UK)/The Infernals (US) in 2011. Cool third Samuel Johnson novel essential be finished in 2013.

I crew also the co-editor, with individual author Declan Burke, of Books to Die For, an miscellany of essays from the world's top crime writers in bow to to the question, "Which complete should all lovers of depravity fiction read before they die?" Books to Die For remains available in the UK chimpanzee of August 2012, and last wishes be available in the Indelicate in October 2012.

I am household in Dublin but divide ill at ease time between my native acquaintance and the United States, annulus each of my novels has been set.