Hello! I hope you’re sitting down, because today is a big day. Today, you find out JD Kirk’s biggest secret. Be warned – after today, nothing will ever be the same again.
If you want things to continue as they were, then ignore this email. Delete it. Forget about it, and move on. Maybe go for a walk. Phone a friend. Read a good book, or make yourself something nice to eat.
Anything to make you forget how close you came to having your whole world turned upside-down.
Still here?
OK, don’t say you weren’t warned.
JD KIRK’S BIG SECRET IS…
There is no JD Kirk.
Not really.
Well, a bit.
Kind of.
Basically, JD Kirk is a pen name for Barry Hutchison, former children’s author, turned comic-book writer, turned comedy science-fiction author, and now turned Scottish crime fiction author.
Shocking, isn’t it?
I think the best way for you to learn more about me is by clicking the big button below to check out a short video I’ve made exclusively for members of the JD Kirk VIP Club. In it, I’ll talk about my previous work, explain my decision to start writing under a pen name, and probably waffle on a bit about a load of old nonsense, for which I apologise in advance. Enjoy!
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I am on book 12 of DCI Logan series and thoroughly enjoy them all. I like the way you include humour in difficult situations. Also the way you incorporate private lives into the stories. I have difficult putting them as you always leave questions at the end of each chapter
All of your books under JD are brilliant. I’m a big fan of Stuart McBride but you’ve overtaken him. The Logan books are brilliant. Well written with strong likeable characters and plenty of humour among the gore. As for Hoon, f****** b****** brilliant
Hi Barry. I would just like to say how i have enjoyed the DC I Logan books i have read them all and now awaiting for the latest release next week. I find the books very enjoyable to read and so so funny i have to laugh out loud many times. Long may he carry on getting rid of these people who carry out murders. Anne. Leeds.
Thank goodness for Mrs McAlistair & Louise Ross
Hello I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy the DCI Logan books. I had wondered what other books you had written so am off to discover Space Team now.
I discovered your work through the UK crime FB page.
It’s now 18 months since your video so am hoping there are many more Logan books to come.
Best wishes
Hello Barry Love the DCI Logan series of books, my wife got me into them as she downloads them in audible format and is constantly chortling away as she listens to the antics of the various characters in your books
Since I have seen your video I am now aware of the other stuff you have written and will look out for them.
Cheers Roy
PS I hope you managed a hair cut!
Can’t wait for Logan and his team next week and then not too long for Hoon to return. My only problem is I read them far too quickly. Thank you also to Mrs McAlistair for recognising a budding author. Keep the books coming, fantastic. I have also got my granddaughter hooked, she has finished Logan and is on Southpaw now, she just loves Hoon. Thank you 😊
Have read all DCI Logan books and All three hoon it’s an addiction,now visiting locations…a boon for Scottish tourism !!
I have read all the DCI Logan books and can,t wait for the next one. They are Brilliant !!! I have also read the Hoon ones too, love them. Keep them coming J D
Addicted and ready to do a mischief some jeb-end if there is not another Logan or Hoon soon. Warning you !!
Oh and learning the cuss words of Scotland a bonus. Thx
I love the Logan books. They are wonderfully written, character driven, and the plots are intricate yet plausible. As an American reader I personally want to compliment you on your restraint in not describing every freaking rock and patch of weeds in the UK. Much appreciated.
Interesting how you manage to keep reader interested to the end. So many books I don’t bother to read until the end as they become boring and have lost my interest.
I always enjoy a good series.
Thanks.
I found you via the Space Team books and then moved on to your individual novels.
Wanting more I started reading the Jack Logan books. I could see your SpaceTeam sense of humour coming though into the black humour of Logan, Hoon, et al.
Don’t ever stop, either as Barry or JD.
I have read a lot of detective series but your dci Logan series is by far the best ! I absolutely love the way you describe things and the banter literally makes me laugh out loud which I’ve never done before with any other series. My only complaint is that you need to write faster because I hate waiting for the next one ! I ways google the places you mention as well as a friend of mine used to own a small ship called Lord of the Glens which went through the rivers and locks and into fort William . Keep up the good work
Hello Barry (if that’s your real name!)
I was on about book five of the Logan series and had just decided that JD KIrk was one of my favourite authors when I came across the end credits saying “writing as Barry Hutchinson”. I had already decided several years ago that Mr Hutchinson was one of my favourite authors so I didn’t know whether to feel delighted or cheated. I went with delighted.
Looking back the humour shines through your writing so I urge anyone who enjoys your comedic asides in the Logan series to check out the Space Team books. Marvellous.
Sorry I do know its Hutchison without he N. I’m tired
Hello Barry aka JD, I have just enjoyed your video, you are so easy to listen to and interesting.
I started reading your books shortly after the first DCI Logan made it into Amazon and have been waiting for the next one thirteen times 😉.
Now, that Hoon! That man is sheer delight, and how you have managed to get away with such dreadful behaviour from him when we first met him is way beyond my understanding. I think if I had been his author I might have bottled him in a good preservative, but no, you let him loose and he is just sheer delight. I have had so many laughs over him that I can’t wait for the next book with his sister joining him.
Keep writing JD don’t ever stop. 🙂 Carolyn
I really enjoy your books and I just love your humerus letters. They make my day. One needs a good laugh these days .
Keep it up please.
Good afternoon. As one of your older readers ( I am 93) I want to thank you for making my latter years enjoyable with your great books.I love the fact that they contain serious content with a dash of humour.
Hi Barry/JD
I’ve just read your recent comment re the Queen and Aberdeen being the first step on the road to Heaven. I agree it’s the bonniest place these days in spite of the glorious countryside but it no longer smells of fish. Sadly Aberdeen’s fish industry is long gone.
Love your Logan books and looking forward to reading the new one on holiday next week. All the best with your writing.
Lin
So glad you took to writing crime.I have enjoyed all the Logan and Hoone books.
Looking forward to many more.
Hi JD. Read all your Logan books and all your Hoon books, which are the best! Looking forward to reconnecting to DCI Logan next week and – hurrah – laughing-out-loud with Hoon in December!!! Keep it going – a big fan!
Hi..just wanted to pre-order your new book but it’s not in paperback. Just audio and kindle. I’m sad.
Love your books can’t wait for the next one, by the way I think JD should stand for Jack Daniels hehe
I started reading DCI Logan’s first book and immediately got hooked, a serious book with humour mixed in. Since then I’ve worked through the DCI Logan list and enjoyed every one I’ve read. It’s also nice that being a Scot I can relate to the area.
I have introduced my grandkids to Barry and share JDs books with colleagues and residents at the residential facility I work at. I have bought every book from the highland bookshop, all the way from Australia. As far as I am concerned they were worth every penny.
I remember telling my husband quite some time ago how much I really enjoyed “Dial D for Deadman” and how much he’d like the writing and use of humor. I started the Space Team Series soon afterward and kept getting the, “what ARE you snickering about?!” question while reading in bed, so had to explain that it was a different series by that great new (to me) author I’d mentioned before, Barry Hutchison.
Months, and many, many books and authors later, I’m raving to him about this new Scots crime writer I’d discovered, JD Kirk, who has serious plots and great characters with such realistically humorous everyday sorts of interactions while going about their investigations. I’d sure never make it as an investigator, because it took months for me to discover they were the same person! I’m still not sure that Barry Hutchison isn’t the pseudonym…
But the even bigger trick was taking that foul-mouthed, nasty-tempered Bob Hoon…and making him into a lead protagonist to really care about. Can’t wait to see what happens with Heather Filson’s character. Keep the books coming, please, and get a helmet to wear while using the treadmill desk – protect the noggin containing all those ideas!
Hi, I love the DCI Logan series. I have read them all on Kindle which though its a great medium I kind of regret because I would love to have all those physical books to look back on. DCI Logan McRae is a superb character and has developed well from the first book where we were introduced to the then DS Logan McRae and Dr Isobel MacAlister whose little “mewing noises” instantly told me this book was both going to have tension and humour. Anyway I have read the complete series and the Hoon books. I have to say Bob Hoon is a great character, brilliant development, bit sweary but there you are, that’s the man. Great series of books from yourself and a superb addition to the brilliant characters depicted in Scottish (or Scottish set) crime novels produced by the likes of Ian Rankin, James Oswald, Stuart McBride, Peter May and Denzil Meyrick.
Can’t wait for the next in the series of Logan McRae or Bob Hoon books.
(I think you just described Stuart McBride’s books…)