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Bernard O'Keeffe
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Writer of the DI Garibaldi novels. Repd by Laura Macdougall at United Agents. 'The Masked Band' (Garibaldi #4) out Feb 25. Music. Books. Football. Barnes. #QPR supporter. https://bernardokeeffe.com/
Delighted to be part of Bloody Barnes, a brand new crime writing festival at the OSO Theatre on the Green in Barnes. Three days of murder, mystery and mayhem - 6-8 February 2026. Tickets are on sale now: www.osoarts.org.uk
#BloodyBarnes #Crime
November 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Delighted to be part of Bloody Barnes, a brand new crime writing festival at the OSO Theatre on the Green in Barnes. Three days of murder, mystery and mayhem - 6-8 February 2026. Tickets are on sale now: www.osoarts.co.uk #BloodyBarnes #Crime
November 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Coming next February. Grab an early bargain with this pre-order offer from @waterstones.bsky.social This week only!
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#crime #mystery #crimefiction
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Think you've heard all there is to hear about #TheBeatles? Read this book by @ianleslie.bsky.social and think again. Best thing I've read this year.
July 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Any #QPR fans dream of this place at night? DI Garibaldi, the detective in my series of crime novels, does. He also dreams he's the #QPR manager. Maybe someone should give him a call...
@qpr.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
From teaching Shakespeare to plotting murders in Barnes - my journey from English teacher to crime writer - bernardokeeffe.com/turning-to-c... #crimefiction #detective #Barnes@ianrankin1.bsky.social @muswellpress.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"‘A thrilling incursion into suburban low life… will stay with the reader long after turning the last page.’ – Daily Mail. The audiobook of The Masked Band is out now!
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#CrimeFiction #AudiobookRelease
May 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
'He remembered the line from Larkin - 'man hands on misery to man'. That's what he'd done - handed on the misery of being a QPR season ticket-holder to his son. And he didn't regret it one bit.' DI Garibaldi. Possibly the only #QPR - supporting cop in crime fiction.
March 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thanks to the brilliant #BarnesBookshop and @muswellpress.bsky.social for a great launch last night for #TheMaskedband - and thanks to all who came along.
February 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Inspector Morse Revisited. What I learned from re-reading Colin Dexter's Morse series bernardokeeffe.com/inspector-mo...
#crime #books #amreading #amwriting @thecwa.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM

First a winner of the @theguardian.com Prize Crossword and now, as I discovered today, a winner of #TheObserver Everyman! How do I feel? Like a confused venom hooter(4,3,4)
#crossword #cryptic
February 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
MInd-blowing offer in Waitrose...
February 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Coming soon - the new DI Garibaldi. Out on February 20 and available now for pre-order. See here for details - bernardokeeffe.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Delighted to see that 'Every Trick in the Book' has been chosen by @dailymail.co.uk as one of the Best Books to Give This Christmas!
December 4, 2024 at 10:13 AM
"Townes Van Zandt is the best damn songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." (Steve Earle)

“I’ve met Bob Dylan’s bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table, he’s sadly mistaken." (Townes Van Zandt)
November 26, 2024 at 10:23 AM
How teaching turned me to crime. Why I started writing crime fiction bernardokeeffe.com/turning-to-c... - and why @ianrankin1.bsky.social says 'all readers are detectives'
#crime #books #bookssky
November 20, 2024 at 11:48 AM
This is brilliant. Politics. Literature. Cosy Crime. Friends (the sitcom). It's got them all. Witty, playful, clever and very entertaining - @jonathancoe.bsky.social at the top of his game.
November 15, 2024 at 10:59 AM

'He remembered the line from Larkin - 'man hands on misery to man'. That's what he had done - handed on the misery of being a QPR season ticket-holder to his son.'

From the first novel in the series featuring DI Garibaldi. Possibly the only cop in crime fiction with a #QPR
season ticket
November 14, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Hung this on the Wish Tree at the Yoko Ono exhibition earlier this year. Seemed to do the trick - what should I try this time round?
#qpr
November 13, 2024 at 3:56 PM