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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

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

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