Patricia Gibney is an

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

Early life

Gibney is from

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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, 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

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, 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. The novels are set in the fictional Irish town of Ragmullin, which is an anagram of the real-life town of

, where Gibney lives.

Bibliography

* ''Spring Sprong Sally: In Her Spring Sprong World'', October 2011, Detective Lottie Parker Books, 1-11: # ''The Missing Ones'', Published by

, March 2017, # ''The Stolen Girls'', Published by Bookouture, July 2017, # ''The Lost Child'', Published by Bookouture, October 2017, # ''No Safe Place'', Published by Bookouture, March 2018, # ''Tell Nobody'', Published by Bookouture, October 2018, # ''Final Betrayal'', Published by Bookouture, April 2019, # ''Broken Souls'', Published by Bookouture, October 2019, # ''Buried Angels'', Published by Bookouture, May 2020, # ''Silent Voices'', Published by Bookouture, February 2021, # ''Little Bones'', Published by Bookouture, September 2021, # ''The Guilty Girl'', to be published by Bookouture, TBA 2022

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gibney, Patricia Year of birth missing (living people) People from Mullingar Irish women novelists Irish crime fiction writers Living people 21st-century Irish novelists 21st-century Irish women writers