Patrick Slaney was born in Ireland in 1940 graduating with a Master's degree from Trinity College, Dublin in 1963. He has now retired to Birchington-on-Sea in the South-East of England, where he writes full-time. Over the course of a busy life he has spent periods living in Ireland, England, South Africa, Australia and France. He includes a flavour of these countries in his writing which greatly enhances the well researched plots of his novels. Most of his stories are written around accurate historical facts or are in the genre Crime/Mystery.