Belfast-born MATT MCGUIRE has worked as a barman, an encyclopedia salesman and a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is currently based at the University of Western Sydney. His first novel, Dark Dawn, was published in 2012.
[Brings] a Henning Mankell-style realism to the genre - Sunday Times (Ireland) Praise for Dark Dawn: You are never going to escape the past in a place like Belfast. When a dead teenager turns up kneecapped ... no one but Acting DS John O'Neill seems particularly bothered. O'Neill has a lot to prove and McGuire handles it brilliantly. - Daily Mirror