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Pat Halford

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in wokingham, The United Kingdom

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Thriller, Fiction, Crime

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Based in Finland, author of the Nordic thrillers, North Karelian Boomerang, set in Finland, Tilda & Lærke, set in Denmark, and North To Akureyri, set in Iceland.

Currently working on the sequel to Tilda & Lærke.

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Pat Halford The dogs found her body first.
Their GPS trackers brought the hunters to the scene forty minutes later. At first they thought it was an animal’s decomp…moreThe dogs found her body first.
Their GPS trackers brought the hunters to the scene forty minutes later. At first they thought it was an animal’s decomposing corpse. Once they had pulled the hounds away from their carnivorous feeding frenzy, they froze in their footsteps.(less)

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Pat Halford Gym, bike or Kayak in summer. And forcing myself into an hours writing every morning before work. Sometimes if I loose the current thread, I go off an…moreGym, bike or Kayak in summer. And forcing myself into an hours writing every morning before work. Sometimes if I loose the current thread, I go off and write something later in the story, then try to weave it back in. Often this helps open up new plot avenues. I wrote North To Akureyri mostly in 2021 and just let it sit there. Its set in Iceland in 2028 and I had created some interesting characters that I thought could go somewhere else. Then in April 2022 I wrote Tilda & Lærke in a 2.5 month sprint, but during the process realised I could bring some of the Icelandic characters back into the past to fill a gap in the story. So that was when I decided to create a series of Nordic books.(less)

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	Tilda & Lærke (The Nordic Assassin series) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The first novel I published was actually the third one I had "written".

I had always wanted to write a Danish thriller because I have worked there, on and off, for the last 22 years. I had also lived there for a couple of years in the early part of this century.

I got the idea in early April for an all-out chase across Denmark, starting in Jylland, then across Fyn, and onto Sjælland, before finally Read more of this blog post »

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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

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Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide

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“I don't do a lot of planning. I just need the daily cadence of writing, early in the morning, before work starts. I often find that the next day when I come to review what I wrote the day before, I discover a new direction I can take a thread or a character in.”
― Pat Halford, North To Akureyri

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