This week, despite life hurling curveballs at me and laying obstacles in my path, I completed the first draft of A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, the 21st book in the DCI Jack Logan series. I am by and large happy with it - as happy as I ever am with a first draft - and will...
With only a couple of months until it's published, I thought it would be fun to give you a taste of what to expect from My Daughter is Missing, my upcoming psychological thriller. Like with my crime fiction, I tried very hard to make it completely serious, but it...
If you're a member of my VIP Club, it's possible that you may have read a short story I wrote a few years ago called THE BONE HOUSE. It was a very dark horror story, written back when I was spending most of my days writing funny books for children. It was written way...
It's less than two months until my first psychological thriller novel (not counting HIM) is published by Bookouture, and I can't wait for you to read it. Because this is a new departure for me, there were a lot of questions about it from readers. I answered a lot of...
We knew, right away, she was the dog for us. It was July 2014, just a few months after my mum had passed away following two long battles with cancer. We'd driven for 4 hours down to a farm in the Scottish Borders, after my wife had spent hours doing her due diligence...
It has been five years since A Litter of Bones was first published, which still seems hard to believe. Since then, I've written 26 other books in the DCI Logan universe, but people still - thankfully - enjoy the book that started it all. Now, thanks to a collaboration...
DetailsJD Kirk will be heading to the Byres Road Festival for a Q&A. More information will be announced soon!Book Nowhttps://byresroadbookfestival.comWhen & WhereSeptember 28, 2024 (6:30 pm) - September 28, 2024 (7:30 pm)
DetailsJD Kirk will be appearing alongside the brilliant Rachel Abbott at the opening event of Bloody Scotland. Tickets are available from the Bloody Scotland website: https://bloodyscotland.com/event/jd-kirk-and-rachel-abbottBook...
DetailsTo celebrate the release of the 20th book in the DCI Logan series, A Killer of Influence, JD Kirk will be chatting online to the team at the UK Crime Book Club. To join in head over to their Facebook group.Book...
Somehow, and don't ask me how, five whole years have passed since publication of the first DCI Jack Logan Novel, A Litter of Bones. In 2019, I published the first four books in the series, which means those books have all now either passed or approaching their fifth...
Don't let the title of this post worry you. Jack isn't going to be going under the cosmetic surgeon's knife, going clothes shopping in Superdry, or even ditching his gruff and grumpy attitude. However, you may well have started to see some changes to the covers of the...
It was originally supposed to be a trilogy. Then, I wrote a fourth book. Now, two years later, Robert Hoon returns once more in Stateside, a brand new adventure which will see everyone's favourite foul-mouthed former detective superintendent journey across the...
Last week, in a rare moment of total clarity, I finally understood what my life's purpose was. I finally knew the reason I was put on this earth. It was to create a mash-up between the much-loved long-running Scottish comic strip, The Broons, and our own Bob and Berta...
It's the first ever edition of The Hoons! Script by JD Kirk, art by Stephen White. Click to enlarge, and let me know what you think in the comments!
Having received several hundred emails over the past few years asking for advice on how to write and/or publish a book, I've finally packaged up everything I learned when starting as an indie author into a step-by-step self-publishing course. Bookstrapping is based on...
DI Heather Filson returns in her second solo outing from bestselling Scottish crime fiction author, JD Kirk.
You may well not know this, but Alex Smith (author of the brilliant DCI Kett series) and I have written a few movie screenplays together, which are at various stages of development. We're also - God help us - working on an idea with DCI Grimm author, David J. Gatward....
DetailsJoin author, JD Kirk, as he discusses his career to date as part of the festival.When & WhereSeptember 14, 2023 (4:00 pm) - September 14, 2023 (5:00 pm)Carnegie Lodge Hotel, Tain
DetailsJD Kirk is the pen name of multi-award-winning author, screenwriter, and writer of comics, Barry Hutchison. Born and raised in Fort William in the Highlands of Scotland, Barry/JD wanted to be a writer from the age of nine, when a kindly librarian wrote his name...
DetailsWaterstones Newton Mearns are excited to host 'An Evening with J D Kirk' on Tuesday the 18th of July from 7pm-8pm in the Primavera Bistro. Join us as JD discusses the latest DCI Logan novel to be published 'In Service of Death' and ask any burning questions you...
