The Dying Detective
"Don't even think about skipping or skimming a sentence much less a paragraph (or stanza) in this clever and fast-paced sci-fi/thriller/voodoo/police mystery." (Goodreads) Omphalos: “He paints a dark picture of near-future Ottawa in his series, a worldview he said stems from an aptitude for humorous pessimism that satirical writers tend to share.” (Centretown News) “The essential narrative is filled with side-plots and twists galore – from ‘factioning’ to voodoo — plus a wonderful setting, warts and all, in the not so distant future in our very own downtown Ottawa.”(Barbara Sibbald, Goodreads) Missing Children: “The novel’s intricate plot is true to mystery literature, but Missing Children is undeniably unique as well.” (The Fulcrum) "Lynch’s powers of description are such that it shakes you.” (John Brooke, Goodreads) Exotic Dancers: “The result is a cross between Alice Munro's microscopic attention to personal tensions and Roddy Doyle's vision of the energy and humour that is part of life on the wrong side of the trout stream.” (Books in Canada) Troutstream: "… is one of the most unusual and stylish murder mysteries I have ever read” (Event, UK). "To read his sentences, at times, is enough; there is pure pleasure to be obtained from such genuinely good writing” (The Sunday Press, Ireland) |
Photo: Maura Lynch, Crow Photography
Website design: Bryan Lynch
Website design: Bryan Lynch
5 April 2024
A new story, "Dancing Lessons," in Barzakh Magazine.
A new story, "Dancing Lessons," in Barzakh Magazine.
9 January 2024
New novel, "Plaguing Jake," forthcoming 12 June, available for pre-order from publisher At Bay Press, at amazon.ca, Indigo-Chapters, and elsewhere.
New novel, "Plaguing Jake," forthcoming 12 June, available for pre-order from publisher At Bay Press, at amazon.ca, Indigo-Chapters, and elsewhere.
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Plaguing Jake by Gerald Lynch Mary McGahern goes off to university from the small town of Leitrim Falls. Mary was mostly schooled at home by a self-taught, highly literate, widower farmer father, which has always made her an oddity. Professor Jake Flynn, nearing retirement, despairs of contemporary higher education in English Literature, which has moved away from reading and studying the best that has been thought and written to viewing literature as valuable only to the extent that it contributes to improving the world. Mary becomes Professor Flynn’s student in two courses. Plaguing Jake, in the tradition of the academic satire, is also a story of young love and a mystery (a rare edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses is stolen from a display case). The novel heralds a powerful return to literary storytelling in an essential Canadian narrative, by a writer whose fiction has been described as a “cross between Roddy Doyle and Alice Munro.” |
15 June 2023
A new story: "Terminal One Departures," in The Antagonish Review 212 (Winter 2023): 5-12.
A new story: "Terminal One Departures," in The Antagonish Review 212 (Winter 2023): 5-12.
11 June 2023
An interview with Gerald conducted by Rob McLennan of Chaudiere Books:
An interview with Gerald conducted by Rob McLennan of Chaudiere Books:
3 March 2023
A new story: "Out of Ireland," in The McNeese Review (2023).
A new story: "Out of Ireland," in The McNeese Review (2023).
1 August 2022
Now available: "Free Love, At a Price." Lost Lake Folk Opera N7 Volume 1 (Summer 2022). 63-72.
Now available: "Free Love, At a Price." Lost Lake Folk Opera N7 Volume 1 (Summer 2022). 63-72.
Spring 2022
A new short story in The Antigonish Review, "Orders," set some 2000 years ago and told by one Yosef (yes, that Joseph):
A new short story in The Antigonish Review, "Orders," set some 2000 years ago and told by one Yosef (yes, that Joseph):
5 April 2022
Mary and The Crow - Short Story by Gerald Lynch
Mary and The Crow - Short Story by Gerald Lynch
2 Feb 2022
Watch What You Wish For - In Long Short Story by Gerald Lynch
Watch What You Wish For - In Long Short Story by Gerald Lynch
1 Jan 2022
Upcoming Short Stories:
Upcoming Short Stories:
"Watch What You Wish For" The Write Launch (Feb. 2022).
"Mary and the Crow." The Bookends Review (April. 2022).
1 Nov 2021
The Arlington Literary Journal latest issue with art by Bette Ridgeway, work by Gerald Lynch: Leave Taken, from his upcoming novel, Plaguing Jake.
17 May 2021
Short story: "Christmas Comes Again." Barzakh Magazine 2021.
10 April 2021
"The Dying Detective ... is a weird and compelling police procedural that believes it is saying something profound about death and identity — to those who can keep up with the author."
30 January 2021
"Don't even think about skipping or skimming a sentence much less a paragraph (or stanza) in this clever and fast-paced sci-fi/thriller/voodoo/police mystery." ...see more
6 December 2020
Have a *Black Mirror* fan on your holiday shopping list? All Lit Up recommends *The Dying Detective,* calling it "an intense page-turner."
#ALUbingemas day four has picks for the dystopian devotee who would walk bravely into the ashes of this world ...
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Have a *Black Mirror* fan on your holiday shopping list? All Lit Up recommends *The Dying Detective,* calling it "an intense page-turner."
#ALUbingemas day four has picks for the dystopian devotee who would walk bravely into the ashes of this world ...
…see more
5 October 2020
Q & A: U of O professor Dr. Gerald Lynch to release new detective novel
Q & A: U of O professor Dr. Gerald Lynch to release new detective novel
15 August 2020
Essay: "Why Can't Duddy Go Home Again?" University of Toronto Quarterly 2021.
Essay: "Why Can't Duddy Go Home Again?" University of Toronto Quarterly 2021.
17 October 2018
Windsor Review featuring Gerald Lynch. Includes interview, new story "Starry-Eyed," and author photo by daughter Maura (Crow Photography)
Windsor Review featuring Gerald Lynch. Includes interview, new story "Starry-Eyed," and author photo by daughter Maura (Crow Photography)
29 August 2018
Gerald talks with Brenda Chapman on CBC's "Author-to-Author" (All in a Day).
Gerald talks with Brenda Chapman on CBC's "Author-to-Author" (All in a Day).
Photo Credit: CBC Associate Producer Julie Delaney
5 June 2018
Belfast Book Festival
Belfast Book Festival
15 June 2018
Gerald will be reading from his new novel Omphalos at the prestigious Belfast Book Festival, 15 June, 1:00 (click the date to book) at the Linen Hall Library.
Photos from Omphalos book launch March 2nd at Benjamin Books in Ottawa:
O M P H A L O SWhen Eugene DeLint, head of OMPHALOS, a philanthropic conglomerate with tentacles stretching across a drought-plagued, near-future world, is found butchered in his aerie high atop Ottawa, Detective Inspector Kevin Beldon, tortured by old griefs, is yanked from sick leave to battle new demons that will bring him to the edge of sanity. While his colleagues probe DeLint’s closest associates, Beldon holds stubbornly to the conviction that a serial killer known as the Widower—a man who has carved a brutal swath through Beldon’s family—is connected to DeLint’s murder. Aided in his investigation by old friend Chief Frank Thu, new partner Sergeant Brigid Ertelle, a clever crime computer named Mycroft, and his psychiatrist Dr. Ewan Randome, Beldon comes to believe that finding the killer will do more than restore order to a chaotic world—it will restore his life. But will it? |
28 Nov 2017
16 Oct 2017
Order Omphalos at Amazon.ca or direct from the publisher, Signature Editions.
Copyright: Gerald Lynch