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.

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, 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.

Gibney's six novels to date feature a main character, Garda Detective Lottie Parker.[1][2][3]

Bibliography
  • The Missing Ones
  • The Stolen Girls
  • The Lost Child
  • No Safe Place
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References
  1. "100,000 sales in a month for debut Irish author". The Irish Times. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  2. "Patricia Gibney". Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  3. "'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.
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