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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

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.^[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

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

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

Detective Lottie Parker Books, 1-11:

The Missing Ones, Published by Bookouture, March 2017, ISBN 978-1786811509
The Stolen Girls, Published by Bookouture, July 2017, ISBN 978-0751572193
The Lost Child, Published by Bookouture, October 2017, ISBN 978-0751572483
No Safe Place, Published by Bookouture, March 2018, ISBN 978-0751574913
Tell Nobody, Published by Bookouture, October 2018, ISBN 978-0751577525
Final Betrayal, Published by Bookouture, April 2019, ISBN 978-1786818492
Broken Souls, Published by Bookouture, October 2019, ISBN 978-1838880804
Buried Angels, Published by Bookouture, May 2020, ISBN 978-1838886622
Silent Voices, Published by Bookouture, February 2021, ISBN 978-1800190818
Little Bones, Published by Bookouture, September 2021, ISBN 978-1800196179
The Guilty Girl, Published by Bookouture, June 2022, ISBN 978-1803142524

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "100,000 sales in a month for debut Irish author". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Patricia Gibney – Mullingar's top selling Crime Writer". 10 October 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
^ "Patricia Gibney". Retrieved 15 March 2018.
^ "'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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