Irish Writers' Centre - Peregrine Readings

Peregrine Readings Autumn 2012


Reading 4 Irish Writers' Centre reading on Tuesday 23rd October 7.30pm
	Arlene Hunt
	Arlene Hunt is the author of seven crime fiction novels, five of which feature the popular QuicK Investigation duo, John Quigley and Sarah Kenny. She is also the co-owner of Portnoy Publishing. She lived in Barcelona for five years and now resides in Dublin. Her books have been translated into various languages and her current novel, a stand-alone set in the US titled The Chosen, was voted TV3's Book of the Month for November 2011. An earlier novel, Undertow(2008), was short listed for best crime novel at the Irish Book Awards. Arlene has also contributed to many anthologies, including, Down These Green Streets, Requiems for the Departedand Console.

		Declan Burke
		Declan Burke has published four novels to date: Eight Ball Boogie (2003), The Big O (2007), Absolute Zero Cool (2011) and Slaughter’s Hound (2012). Absolute Zero Cool was shortlisted in the crime fiction section of the Irish Book Awards 2011, and received the Goldsboro/ Crimefest ‘Last Laugh’ Award for Best Humorous Crime Novel in 2012. He is the editor of Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (2011), and the co-editor, with John Connolly, of Books to Die For (2012). He hosts a website dedicated to Irish crime fiction called Crime Always Pays (http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.ie/). Declan lives in Wicklow with his wife and daughter.

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