Brian McGilloway is an award-winning crime novelist and screenwriter based in Northern Ireland.

As a novelist, Brian is the author of fourteen novels to date, including the critically acclaimed Inspector Benedict Devlin Mysteries (seven novels, 2007 – 2021)and Lucy Black series (four novels, 2011 – 2017) and the standalone novels The Last Crossing, The Empty Room, and 2025’s “utterly believable and breathlessly exciting” (Irish Independent), The One You Least Suspect.

As a screenwriter, he has developed original projects with BBC N. Ireland and Two Cities Television (including his Tony Doyle Award-winning, multi-stranded crime thriller LITTLE EMPERORS), and he has recently written four episodes of BBC drama HOPE STREET as his first screenwriting credits.  His books have been optioned by Two Cities, Clerkenwell, BBC Studios and Left Bank.

His novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards including the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year, the Irish Book Awards and CWA Daggers while The Last Crossing was recognised with an unprecedented Highly Commended Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2021. Other accolades include his novels featuring on the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists.

Brian lives near the Irish borderlands with his wife and their four children.

Publishing Agent: David Headley, DHH