Anthony J. Quinn

Anthony J. Quinn is an Irish journalist and author best known for writing a series of detective thrillers – the Inspector Celsius Daly crime mystery series. Quinn was born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland and attended college at the Queen’s University, Belfast, where he studied English. After college, he held down several jobs that included yoga teacher, organic gardener, lecturer, and social worker before he got into journalism. It is quite bizarre that he would work in such jobs given that Quinn asserts that he was overly shy as a child and needed a speech therapist to him help get over his communication difficulties. Nonetheless, he had always loved writing as a child and had written several poems during his formative years. He would write his first novel “Disappeared” in 2012 to much critical acclaim. The novel made the shortlist for the Strand Literary Award and got positive critiques from The Times Magazine, the Daily Mail, and Kirkus Reviews. The novels have been described as some of the best crime novels, a magnificent meditation, an irresistible and hypnotically expressive take on the destructive legacy of the troubled times.