I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
Our daughter’s name Arwynn comes from Arwen in ‘Lord of the Rings’ because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It’s complicated. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus.’ Adrian McKinty Read Quote
I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew – people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don’t remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it’s the only one that’s given for an entire continent. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called ‘Dead I Well May Be.’ Adrian McKinty Read Quote
If you haven’t read ‘In The Morning I’ll Be Gone’, I reckon it’s a pretty good place to start if you’re new to me and my books. Adrian McKinty Read Quote
