Patricia Gibney

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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[edit]

Gibney is from Mullingar, County Westmeath and has lived there all her life. She spent 30 years working with Westmeath County Council.

Writing career[edit]

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.[1] 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.

Lottie Parker detective novels[edit]

Gibney's thirteen novels to date feature a main character, Detective Inspector 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[edit]

  • Spring Sprong Sally: In Her Spring Sprong World, October 2011, ISBN 978-0957003507

Detective Lottie Parker Books, 1-11:

  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
  9. Silent Voices, Published by Bookouture, February 2021, ISBN 978-1800190818
  10. Little Bones, Published by Bookouture, September 2021, ISBN 978-1800196179
  11. The Guilty Girl, Published by Bookouture, June 2022, ISBN 978-1803142524

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "100,000 sales in a month for debut Irish author". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Patricia Gibney – Mullingar's top selling Crime Writer". 10 October 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Patricia Gibney". Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  4. ^ "'Writing was a therapy for me when my husband died suddenly' - best-selling Irish author you have probably never heard of". The Independent. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
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