Brian McGilloway
Brian McGilloway is a crime fiction author from Derry, Northern Ireland. Born in 1974, he studied English at Queens University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is a former Head of English at St. Columb's College in Derry, but now teaches in Holy Cross College in Strabane.[1][2] McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called Borderlands. Borderlands was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel.[3]
In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series.[4] The sequel to Borderlands, Gallows Lane, was published in April 2008.[citation needed]
McGilloway lives near the Irish borderlands with his wife and their four children.[citation needed] His 2020 novel, The Last Crossing, was nominated in the 2021 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[5]
Bibliography[]
Benedict Devlin series[]
- 2007 - Borderlands
- 2008 - Gallows Lane
- 2009 - Bleed a River Deep
- 2010 - The Rising
- 2012 - The Nameless Dead
Lucy Black series[]
- 2011 - Little Girl Lost
- 2013 - Hurt
- 2016 - Preserve the Dead
- 2017 - Bad Blood
References[]
- ^ DOHERTY, HARRY (14 March 2008). "McGilloway on the run". Derry Journal. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
- ^ "English Dept". St Columb's College. 22 June 2011. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ Burke, Declan (28 October 2007). "Dark fiction that knows no boundaries". The Sunday Times.
- ^ "'No-frills' authors move to Pan". Bookseller (5273): 10. 23 March 2007. ISSN 0006-7539.
- ^ Mitchinson, James, ed. (23 July 2021). "Whitaker wins crime novel of the year award". The Yorkshire Post. p. 8. ISSN 0963-1496.
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