Brian McGilloway
Brian McGilloway is a crime fiction author from Derry, Northern Ireland. Born in 1974, he 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. He is a former Head of English at St. Columb's College in Derry, but now teaches in Holy Cross College in Strabane. McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called "Borderlands". "Borderlands" was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel. In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan  to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series. The sequel to "Borderlands", "Gallows Lane", was published in April 2008. McGilloway lives near the Irish borderlands with his wife and their four children. His 2020 novel, "The Last Crossing", was nominated in the 2021 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.