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Peter Kirby

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Cork, Ireland

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http://www.peterkirby.ca

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Crime, Mystery, Contemporary

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September 2012

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I was born in Ireland. When I was ten, the family left for England like so many Irish families at the time, and even now. We settled in Brixton, a working class South London neighbourhood. Growing up in Brixton, the only thing I excelled at was getting into fights, which wasn’t hard for a mouthy kid with glasses and too much attitude. I left school knowing no university would take me, and headed for America. After wandering around for a few years, working as a cook in New York, Boston and Toronto, I arrived in Montreal at the start of the great Anglophone exodus that followed the election of the Parti Québécois, the province’s first separatist government. I figured, if the old establishment was running for the lifeboats, the city could be a ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 404 ratings · 99 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dead of Winter (Luc Vanier, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2012 — 9 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
	Montreal Noir by Jacques Filippi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John McFetridge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rob Pobi 3.66 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2017 — 8 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
	Open Season (Luc Vanier, #3) 3.87 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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
	Vigilante Season (Luc Vanier, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2013 — 5 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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“Crime doesn’t take a holiday. It changes costume for the season, and Christmas is the season for domestic violence. Too much pressure to deliver the perfect gift, and not enough money. Too little to say, and too much alcohol encouraging confessions. Never enough love or imagination to deliver the dream.”
― Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter

tags: christmas, crime, domestic-violence

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“But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can’t say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that’s important is left unspoken.”
― Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter

tags: family, father, son

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“I suppose that’s an inevitable part of human existence, but in the bosom of a close family it can, at least, be endured. For the homeless, there is no relief. Without family or friends there’s only the pain.”
― Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter

tags: family, friendship, humanity

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