J.F. Kirwan

J.F. Kirwan is an insomniac and coffee-addict who lives just outside Paris. He believes the best time to write thrillers is in the dead of night when everyone is sleeping. He studied psychology, including some chilling lectures from a criminology professor who used to interview serial killers, which in part inspired his forthcoming novel with Bloodhound.

His day job involves trying to prevent large-scale accidents (mainly airplanes and nuclear power plants). Studying them over the years has given him a sense of how catastrophic events start off slow, simmer awhile, then gather speed and accelerate towards the final event. He channels this experience into his writing, and calls it tourniquet plotting. 

His second main passion is diving, and as a dive instructor, he's been lucky enough to dive all over the world, and wrote a spy thriller trilogy with a strong diving element, the Nadia Laksheva series (66 Metres; 37 Hours; 88 North). 

His current focus though is on serial killers: what makes them tick, and how close to sanity’s edge you need to be to catch them.