"If Raymond Chandler had grown up in N Ireland the Sean Duffy series is what he wd have written." Times of London "The Sean ...

 

delighted to say that THE DETECTIVE UP LATE has been shortlisted for the 2024 Barry Award for Best Novel huge thanks to the judges and the r...

Duffy 7 starting to appear on a few best year of the lists. As always I am grateful to the critics who pick these lists but in the case of...

the NYT review of The Island is hilarous...the reviewer begins by HATING the very concept of the book, the very idea of it... and then, lit...

So, my novel The Island will be out in May. Its a thematic sequel to The Chain. Not a sequel but a thematic sequel...I cannot say more w/out...

 

 2020 kicked our ass but if you're reading this then by god you're still alive and kicking. I hope you stay safe and sane in 2021. I...

  I'm afraid I cannot be my usual glib, sarcastic self today. I'm in shock. (Happy shock.)  Over the last 48 hours The Chain won t...

I am absolutely stunned to win two of the biggest awards in crime fiction in the same week. I cannot even get my head around this. Last week...

I like the people who came to writing novels from working in newspapers. For them writing is a job. You get up at nine in the morning and yo...

Normally after I review a book in a newspaper I will wait a week or so and publish the book review here on the blog for free. I've been ...

Janet Maslin's review of The Chain... I've been a huge fan of Maslin since I used to read her film reviews in the Belfast Central Li...

my interview with Salman Rushdie in the Irish Times, apologies about the formatting here, I just could not get this to quite cut and paste ...