The Cold, Cold Ground

Washington Heights.
    In 2000 I moved to Denver, Colorado where I taught highschool English and started writing fiction in earnest. My first full-length novel Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was picked by Booklist as one of the ten best crime novels of the year. The sequel to that book The Dead Yard was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the twelve best novels of 2006 and won the Audie Award for best mystery or thriller. These two novels, along with The Bloomsday Dead , form my trilogy of novels starring hitman Michael Forsythe, the DEAD trilogy.
    In mid 2008 I moved to St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia with my wife and kids. My book Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award and my last novel, Falling Glass , was longlisted for Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year.
    Visit Adrian’s blog at http://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com/