Patricia Gibney

Patricia Gibney is an Irish author of crime fiction who sold 100,000 copies of her first crime thriller as an e-book,[1] and had total sales exceeding 500,000 copies in 2018. By 2019, total book sales had passed one million.[2]

Early life

Gibney is from Mullingar, County Westmeath and has lived there all her life. She spent 30 years working with Westmeath County Council.

Writing career

When her husband died in 2009, aged 49, three months after a diagnosis of cancer,[2] Gibney turned to art and writing, self-publishing a children's book entitled Spring Sprong Sally. Gibney then started writing crime fiction and created her first novel in that genre. She worked with the Irish Writers Centre to improve her writing. Eventually she began a second novel and through that acquired an agent and a publishing contract with Bookouture, which has since been bought by Hachette Publishing.

Lottie Parker detective novels

Gibney's eight novels to date feature a main character, Garda Detective Lottie Parker.[1][3][4] The novels are set in the fictional Irish town of Ragmullin, which is an anagram of the real-life town of Mullingar, where Gibney lives.[2]

Bibliography
  • Spring Sprong Sally: In Her Spring Sprong World, October 2011, ISBN 978-0957003507

Detective Lottie Parker Books, 1-8:

  1. The Missing Ones Published by Bookouture, March 2017, ISBN 978-1786811509
  2. The Stolen Girls Published by Bookouture, July 2017, ISBN 978-0751572193
  3. The Lost Child Published by Bookouture, October 2017, ISBN 978-0751572483
  4. No Safe Place Published by Bookouture, March 2018, ISBN 978-0751574913
  5. Tell Nobody Published by Bookouture, October 2018, ISBN 978-0751577525
  6. Final Betrayal Published by Bookouture, April 2019, ISBN 978-1786818492
  7. Broken Souls Published by Bookouture, October 2019, ISBN 978-1838880804
  8. Buried Angels Published by Bookouture, May 2020, ISBN 978-1838886622

References
  1. "100,000 sales in a month for debut Irish author". The Irish Times. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  2. "Patricia Gibney – Mullingar's top selling Crime Writer". October 10, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
  3. "Patricia Gibney". Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  4. "'Writing was a therapy for me when my husband died suddenly' - best-selling Irish author you have probably never heard of". The Independent. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.