About Gill

Writer, dance teacher and former primary school teacher,
Gill Perdue is the author of bestselling crime novel If I Tell which was shortlisted for Crime Novel of the Year in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2022. If I Tell was the first in the Shaw & Darmody series of crime thrillers published by Penguin, set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Clonchapel.

 

A second Shaw & Darmody, When They See Me, was published in 2023 to excellent reviews - described as ‘a thrilling read,’ (The Independent) and ‘an impressive follow up’ (Belfast Telegraph).

 

In July 2025 her hotly anticipated third novel, The Night I Killed Him, a cold-case murder set in an exclusive South Dublin yacht club, was launched in Dun Laoghaire (where else?), and zipped straight into the bestseller lists! This book received rave reviews - with Marian Keys declaring it: ‘utterly UTTERLY magnificent!’

 

2026 will see the publication of her first standalone thriller - a hiking whodunnit.

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Gill lives in Rathfarnham with her rescue cat Dusty and her hiking husband who makes good coffee.