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Irish Crime Writer
featured on Penguin's Most Wanted, March 2006

UPDATED -- STRONG REVIEWS OF THE GROUNDS -- 7 GREAT CRIME NOVELS
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Cormac Millar lives in Dublin where, as Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, he teaches Italian at Trinity College, Ireland's oldest and finest university. A translator and academic author, Cormac has recently taken to crime fiction. His first novel, An Irish Solution, was published by Penguin Ireland in 2004, and was generally well received, with a fair sprinkling of critical acclaim, A more amply-proportioned novel, The Grounds, was published in Spring 2006; it is set in a remarkably dysfunctional Irish university invented half a century ago by the author's mother. A third novel, tackling an ambitious political theme, has been blocked; the author is currently working on another Dublin-based crime story.

Both An Irish Solution and The Grounds have splendid cover designs by Edward Bettison, incorporating atmospheric Dublin images by Ken Walsh Photography.

An Irish Solution was reissued in a pocket-sized Penguin paperback format in March 2005. It is still available in bookshops and online, or direct from the publisher. The Grounds appeared in mass-market format in January 2007 -- and was out of print by the end of the same year.

[The name is Cormac Millar, not Cormac Miller. The author adopted a pseudonym partly to do away with misspellings of his real name. So far, it's not working.]
(Author photograph by Mark McCall)