D.F. Bailey
I love writing fiction — crime-based social realism, in particular — especially when the story I'm writing is linked to true events of some kind.
The key character in my first novel, Fire Eyes, was inspired by a patient I met when I worked on a psychiatric children's ward. The plot for that novel drew heavily on the "Squamish Five," an urban guerilla terrorist group active in the early 1980s. By the way, Fire Eyes was a W. H. Smith First Novel Award finalist.
The inspiration for Bone Maker, the first book in my new crime trilogy, emerged from two key sources. First, the case of a black bear devouring a convicted murderer in the wilderness, and second, the theft of $450,000,000 in Bitcoin from the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Japan. As far as I know, this is the largest non-military robbery of all time. To date this crime has not been solved. (You can find links to the actual events on my web site: http://www.dfbailey.com/TrueEvents.html)
PS: on July 4, Bone Maker was nominated for a Whistler Independent Book Award.
The key character in my first novel, Fire Eyes, was inspired by a patient I met when I worked on a psychiatric children's ward. The plot for that novel drew heavily on the "Squamish Five," an urban guerilla terrorist group active in the early 1980s. By the way, Fire Eyes was a W. H. Smith First Novel Award finalist.
The inspiration for Bone Maker, the first book in my new crime trilogy, emerged from two key sources. First, the case of a black bear devouring a convicted murderer in the wilderness, and second, the theft of $450,000,000 in Bitcoin from the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Japan. As far as I know, this is the largest non-military robbery of all time. To date this crime has not been solved. (You can find links to the actual events on my web site: http://www.dfbailey.com/TrueEvents.html)
PS: on July 4, Bone Maker was nominated for a Whistler Independent Book Award.
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