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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, and had total sales exceeding 500,000 copies in 2018. By 2019, total book sales had passed one million.

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, 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 Publishing.

Lottie Parker detective novels

Gibney's thirteen novels to date feature a main character, Detective Inspector Lottie Parker. 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.

Bibliography

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

Detective Lottie Parker Books, 1-11:

Patricia Gibney: The Missing Ones
Patricia Gibney: The Stolen Girls
Patricia Gibney: The Lost Child
Patricia Gibney: No Safe Place
Patricia Gibney: Tell Nobody
Patricia Gibney: Final Betrayal
Patricia Gibney: Broken Souls
Patricia Gibney: Buried Angels
Patricia Gibney: Silent Voices
Patricia Gibney: Little Bones
Patricia Gibney: The Guilty Girl

Patricia Gibney: The Missing Ones · Patricia Gibney: The Stolen Girls · Patricia Gibney: The Lost Child · Patricia Gibney: No Safe Place · Patricia Gibney: Tell Nobody · Patricia Gibney: Final Betrayal · Patricia Gibney: Broken Souls · Patricia Gibney: Buried Angels · Patricia Gibney: Silent Voices · Patricia Gibney: Little Bones · Patricia Gibney: The Guilty Girl

  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