R J Lynch
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R J Lynch

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Until I stopped in 2015 to become a full-time writer, I spent more than 40 years in international sales, living and working on every continent except Antarctica. I was still writing, though – I’ve written in the early morning and late at night in hotels all over the world. My breakthrough year was 1989 when I sold my first book to a publisher, my first article to a magazine and my first short story to BBC Radio 4. Now I write contemporary fiction in the name of John Lynch, historical fiction as R J Lynch, and police procedurals as JJ Sullivan. Most historical fiction deals with the lives of rich and important people; mine focusses on those at the bottom of the heap -- the labourers, miners and paupers from whom most of us descend. My contemporary fiction to date comprises The Making of Billy McErlane (originally called Zappa's Mam's a Slapper), Sharon Wright: Butterfly, and Darkness Comes. These books resemble my historical fiction in that they are about ordinary people – but ordinary people leading extraordinary lives. Which, I think, describes most of us if we'd only take the time to think about who we are and how we live. And when I stop to think about it, my police procedurals are much the same. The crimes often seem extremely odd, but the people who commit them are the kind of people you and I live next to. The kind who, when a journalist knocks on their neighbours’ door, the neighbours describe as “Quiet people. Nice people. I just can’t believe anything like that would happen here.” Sound familiar?
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