Bernard O'Keeffe

From the Author

I started out in advertising after graduating from Oxford, but It wasn’t for me and I soon escaped to train as an English teacher.

I turned to crime writing when I stopped teaching. The Final Round, the first DI Garibaldi novel, came out in 2021, and the series has grown from there.

If I had to describe the books, I’d call them cosy procedurals—books with dark elements but not hard-boiled, gritty or violent.

The Times said of them: "Bernard O'Keeffe's series is as genteel as the suburb (SW13) in which it is set. Swearing, graphic sex and gore are, for once, off the menu. The gentle humour, oodles of clues and happyish ending create perfect comfort reading.”

Like DI Garibaldi, I live in Barnes. When I’m not writing, I’m usually reading, listening to music, playing Elizabethan Bowls, or watching football—or at least the version of it that QPR play.

I have few claims to fame, but I count giving Clare Balding interview practice, nearly being recruited as a spy, playing football with Nick Hornby, and supplying a spectacularly stupid answer on a TV quiz show to a question about a duck as some of my more notable achievements.

Praise for the DI Garibaldi series -

“O’Keeffe has created in Garibaldi a memorable character with a lengthy shelf life ahead of him.” — Daily Mail

“Perfect comfort reading.” — The Times

“A first-class mystery… O’Keeffe is on a roll to the big time.” — Daily Mail

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