
His 2020 novel, The Last Crossing, was nominated in the 2021 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The sequel to Borderlands, Gallows Lane, was published in April 2008. The first in Brian McGilloway's thrilling DS Lucy Black series, Little Girl Lost is an addictive crime thriller set in Northern Ireland about corruption, greed and vengeance, and a father's love for his daughter. Little Girl Lost (Pan Macmillan) 2013 - Hurt (Constable and Robinson) 2016 - Preserve the Dead (Corsair) 2017 - Bad Blood (Little Brown) Single novels. In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series. Brian McGilloway (born 1974) is a crime fiction author from Derry, Northern Ireland. Borderlands was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel. McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called Borderlands. McGilloway lives in Strabane with his wife and their four children. Columb's College in Derry, but now teaches in Holy Cross College in Strabane. He then studied English at Queen's University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. McGilloway was born in Derry where he attended St Columb's College. Little Girl Lost is a devastating page-turner about corruption, greed and vengeance, and a father's love for his daughter.Brian McGilloway (born 1974) is a crime fiction author from Derry, Northern Ireland. As she struggles to identify the unclaimed child, Lucy begins to realise that this case and the kidnapping may be linked - by events that occurred during the blackest days of the country's recent history, events that also defined her own girlhood. A lost girl is found without an identity & unable to talk. ‘An assured and grittily realistic tale from an author who is being compared to Ian Rankin and. Initially, I felt that McGilloways story was a simple single threaded effort. The first in Brian McGilloway’s thrilling DS Lucy Black series, Little Girl Lost is an addictive crime thriller set in Northern Ireland about corruption, greed and vengeance, and a father’s love for his daughter. Meanwhile, she has her own problems: caring for her Alzheimer's-stricken father and avoiding conflict with her surly Assistant Chief Constable - who also happens to be her mother. Sansoms Matthew Shardlakes Dark Fire, I was comparing the two books and in particular the plot content, prose and the number of layers within a particular storyline. DS Black is baffled to find herself suddenly transferred from a high-profile case involving the kidnapping of a prominent businessman's teenage daughter, to the newly formed Public Protection Unit. Unwilling or unable to speak, the only person she seems to trust is the young officer who rescued her, Detective Sergeant Lucy Black. Her hands are covered in blood, but it is not her own. During a winter blizzard a small girl is found wandering half-naked at the edge of an ancient woodland.
