Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty is an Irish crime novelist who has won the Ned Kelly Award and been shortlisted for the Edgar Award, Dagger Award, Anthony Award, Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
CountryIreland
arrived irish pub pulling saturday
I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx.
degree firm instead join law london miserable oxford supposed time
I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.
became edward george high invented known less morris william work
Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
likes specific
A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.
bar daughter detective fact fell heart inside lies locked morning problem table whether
A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
australia decided moved
When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.
across gets mystery work
When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
asked kids teaching
We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.
october
The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.
best high man
'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.
people
People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.
good morning reckon
If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.
believer slowly stuff throw tinker word words
I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.
dragged rover
I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.