Gene Kerrigan’s novels, Little Criminals and The Midnight Choir, are multi-layered crime stories that explore the culture of greed and violence in the new Ireland. He has also written or co-written seven non-fiction books on various aspects of crime and politics. He won the 2012 Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award for best Crime Novel of the Year for his novel The Rage. One of Ireland’s leading journalists over the past three decades, he lives in Dublin.