Patricia Gibney

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.

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]

• 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