Brian O'Hare, MA, Ph.D., is a retired assistant director of a large regional college of further and higher education. He is married, has three children, ten grandchildren, one great-grandchild. He plays golf three times a week and does a lot of voluntary work. Any writing he has previously done was academic. He had a liver disease since childhood which resulted in his taking early retirement a number of years ago. In 2002 he had a liver transplant but is strong and healthy now. He continued to do academic writing well into his retirement,
Early writing includes a number of academic works for the Northern Ireland Department of Education and The University of Ulster. The final academic book was written shortly after retirement for The University of Ulster/YouthAid: The Excluded Adolescent (pub. U.U., 2004). This was followed by a memoir called A Spiritual Odyssey, published by Columba Press, Dublin, 2005. (Also published by Crimson Cloak Publishing, 2014.) A second non-fiction book followed, The Miracle Ship (New Apple Top Medallist winner, 2014 Awards) also published by Crimson Cloak Publishing.
Then came a yen to write fiction, an urge that was as compelling as it was sudden because it had been suppressed for most of his life (academia had been his life and love). His first effort was Fallen Men, a contemporary novel set in Ireland. (Published by Crimson Cloak Publishing, USA) This book won the Amazon IDB Award in January, 2013and has also won Top Medallist Honours in the General Fiction Category of the prestigious New Apple 2015 Awards for Excellence in Literature.
His dabbling in fiction led to the award-winning The Inspector Sheehan Mysteries Series, full-length detective novels set in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Five books in the series have been written so far. All but the fifth (The Trafficking Murders, which has only recently been published) have received awards. (A sixth volume is in the pipeline )
The others in the series are The Doom Murders, The 11.05 Murders, The Coven Murders, and The Dark Web Murders.
All of these books have been published in ebook format by Crimson Cloak Publishing (who use several distributors including Amazon, Ingram Sparks, Kobo, Barnes& Noble, etc). Paperback and hardback versions are also available, distributed by Ingram Sparks and Amazon.
