Out of Line: From the first line to the last chapter, crime writers Louise Phillips and Declan Burke give us strong clues on how they plan, plot, create characters, points of view, dialogue and denouements in their bestselling crime novels.

Louise Phillips is a bestselling author of six crime thrillers, each nominated for Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year in the prestigious Irish Book Awards. ‘The Doll’s House’, her second novel, won the award. In 2016 she was longlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award in the UK, and her first two novels were published in the U.S. Her fifth novel, ‘The Hiding Game’, is currently in development with a major U.S. film company, and her latest novel, ‘They All Lied’ was published in March 2022. Louise teaches crime fiction workshops throughout Ireland, including the Irish Writers’ Centre.

Declan Burke is the author of Eightball Boogie (2003), The Big O (2007), Absolute Zero Cool (2011), Slaughter’s Hound (2012), Crime Always Pays (2014), The Lost and the Blind (2014), and The Lammisters (2019). Absolute Zero Cool was shortlisted in the crime fiction section for the Irish Book Awards, and received the Goldsboro Award for Best Humorous Crime Novel in 2012. Eightball Boogie and Slaughter’s Hound were also shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Declan is also the editor of Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (2011) and Trouble is Our Business (2016), and the co-editor, with John Connolly, of Books to Die For (2013), which won the Anthony Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime. Declan was a UNESCO / Dublin City Council writer-in-residence for 2017-18. He blogs at Crime Always Pays. http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.ie/

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