SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Brian O'Hare, MA, Ph.D., is a retired assistant director of a large regional college of further and higher education. He is married, has three children, ten grandchildren, one great grandchild. He plays golf three times a week and does a lot of voluntary work. Any writing he has previously done was academic.
He had a liver disease since childhood which resulted in his taking early retirement a number of years ago. In 2002 he had a liver transplant but is strong and healthy now. He continued to do academic writing well into his retirement,
Early writing includes a number of academic works for the Northern Ireland Department of Education and The University of Ulster. The final academic book was written shortly after retirement for The University of Ulster/YouthAid: The Excluded Adolescent (pub. U.U., 2004). This was followed by a memoir about his liver transplant and the spiritual awakening that occurred during a period when he spent a year waiting to die. A timely phone call when he was on the cusp of death changed everything and resulted in the publication of A Spiritual Odyssey, published by Columba Press, Dublin, 2005. (Also published by Crimson Cloak Publishing, 2014.) A second non-fiction book followed, The Miracle Ship (New Apple Top Medallist winner, 2014 Awards) also published by Crimson Cloak Publishing
Brian O’Hare has also written some fiction novels. His first was Fallen Men, a contemporary novel set in Ireland. (Published by Crimson Cloak Publishing, USA) He is currently writing The Inspector Sheehan Mysteries Series, full-length detective novels set in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Three books in the series have been written so far and have been very well received. The Doom Murders, The 11.05 Murders, and The Coven Murders. A fourth, The Dark Web Murders is currently being written.
All of these books have been published in ebook format by Crimson Cloak Publishing (who use several distributors including Amazon, Ingram Sparks, Kobo, Barnes& Noble, etc). Paperback and hardback versions are also available, distributed by Ingram Sparks.
As well as the New Apple Award, The Doom Murders has also won the Bronze medal for Mystery Fiction from Readers Favourite and an IDB award in 2014. Fallen Men has also won an Amazon IDB award in 2013 and, recently, was awarded the Top Medallist Honours in the Contemporary Fiction Category of The New Apple 2015 Awards for Excellence in Independent Publishing. The 11.05 Murders, too, has won the New Apple Award in 2016 and a Readers Favourite Award.. The Coven Murders was published only at the end of February 2018, so has not yet had time to win anything. It has, however, garnered 5 x 5* reviews on Amazon.com.
All of my books have received very favourable reviews ... too many to comment on here. However, I list the books below, with their links to Amazon. Clicking on these links will tell you something about the books, and allow you to take a quick glance at some of the reviews:
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A psychopathhic killer obsesses on a woman police detective.
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Shehan and team find themselves confronted with a powerful and deadly Satanist.
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The Dark Web Murders by Brian O’Hare tells the story of a series of gruesome and violent murders committed by a psychotic dark web blogger who enjoys murdering people.
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First book of a series of mystery thrillers set in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Amazing Biography of a Healer and Exorcist
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In this novel, which addresses the second biggest international crime - Human Trafficking - the author draws a highly realistic image of the chilling, cold-blooded world of modern slavers.
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