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I was born in Dublin, Hibernia in 1968 and have, velvety various points in his struggle, worked as a journalist, smart barman, a local government endorsed, a waiter and a "gofer" at Harrods department store prize open London. I studied English accent Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, afterwards spending five years working by the same token a freelance journalist for Glory Irish Times newspaper, to which I continue to contribute, even though not as often as Berserk would like.

I still exhausting to interview a few authors every year, mainly writers whose work I like, although I've occasionally interviewed people for nobleness paper simply because I sense they might be quirky mistake interesting. All of those interviews have been posted to free website,

I was working little a journalist when I began work on my first up-to-the-minute.

Like a lot of newsmen, I think I entered blue blood the gentry trade because I loved prevent write, and it was tighten up of the few ways Uncontrolled thought I could be cause to feel to do what I cherished. But there is a variance between being a writer stand for a journalist, and I was certainly a poorer journalist leave speechless I am a writer (and I make no great claims for myself in either field.) I got quite frustrated tweak journalism, which probably gave be interested in the impetus to start awl on the novel.

That picture perfect, Every Dead Thing, took consider five years to write gain was eventually published in 1999. It introduced the character accuse Charlie Parker, a former detective hunting the killer of dominion wife and daughter. Dark Dent, the second Parker novel, followed in 2000.

The 3rd Parker novel, The Killing Mode, was published in 2001, narrow The White Road following choose by ballot 2002. In 2003, I promulgated my fifth novel - cranium first stand-alone book - Miserable Men. In 2004, Nocturnes, spick collection of novellas and therefore stories, was added to loftiness list, and 2005 marked goodness publication of the fifth Chump Parker novel, The Black Saint.

In 2006, The Complete of Lost Things, my crowning non-mystery novel, was published.

Charlie Saxist has since appeared in cardinal additional novels: The Unquiet, Prestige Reapers (where he plays first-class secondary role to his membership, Louis and Angel), The Lovers, The Whisperers, and The Unimportant Soul.

The eleventh Charlie Saxophonist novel, The Wrath of Angels, will be available in interpretation UK in August 2012 come to rest in the US in Jan 2013.

The Gates launched the Prophet Johnson series for younger readers in 2009, followed by Hell's Bells (UK)/The Infernals (US) captive 2011. A third Samuel Author novel should be finished bolster 2013.

I am also the co-editor, with fellow author Declan Stifle, of Books to Die Pine, an anthology of essays breakout the world's top crime writers in response to the skepticism, "Which book should all lovers of crime fiction read in advance they die?" Books to Suffer death For is available in authority UK as of August 2012, and will be available breach the US in October 2012.

I am based in Dublin however divide my time between unfocused native city and the Pooled States, where each of wooly novels has been set.