Patrick C. Walsh

You can learn more about me at my author site https://patrickcwalshauthor.com

Born in Birmingham too many years ago, I eventually came to live in leafy Hertfordshire, ending up in a big village called Letchworth Garden City.

I have the same problems with chronic pain as my main character and so the 'Mac Maguire mysteries' were born out of a need to be doing something that wasn't a spread sheet at the weekends. However, even I've been surprised at how Mac has taken on a life of his own and I now see myself as almost being Mac's biographer rather than his inventor.

I'm a lifelong admirer of M.R. James and so I've also started writing ghost and horror stories as well as detective mysteries.

In my time I've had many professions but I started off as a musician. I played guitar professionally for some years before forming my own band and songwriting team using the guitar I now use as my logo - a Pink Paisley Fender Telecaster. However, in my late thirties, I concluded that I was probably not going to be a rock star anytime soon and so I became a quality professional in the automotive industry. In trying to place quality systems online I became interested in websites and information architecture and eventually got invited to apply for a job at the BBC where I worked as an information architect and then as a business analyst for Radio and Music (now BBC Sounds) for a decade and a half. I am now retired and I'm writing full-time.

I have been with my wife Kathleen, my first and best reader, for over thirty years now and I'm grateful that, after all that time, we can still enjoy a chat and a drink at the end of the day. I have a wonderful and talented son, Patrick Seamus, who is responsible for most of my book covers. For my sins, I have also supported Aston Villa Football club for the past sixty-seven years.

I am also a member of the Society of Authors and, just recently, I've become a member of the Crime Writers Association.