About Me:

Hello and welcome,

My name is Gerard, although friends and acquaintances tend to call me ‘Gerry’. For over 20 years I was a journalist with the Independent, I now review television for the I newspaper.

My father, the golden-age crime writer Michael Gilbert, would occasionally ask me when I was going to do some “proper writing”, by which, of course, he meant fiction. He sadly died before my first novel was published in 2017. This was the contemporary thriller The Concierge – soon to be adapted for TV (“soon” may be wishful thinking, although the screen rights have been purchased).

A second book remained unpublished, maybe because it was not good enough or perhaps because agents baulked at the idea of a man in his fifties (as I was then) trying to write in the voice of a young woman.

My new novel is a historical crime thriller set in 1897 Dieppe, on the coast of Normandy. It was inspired by my love of this lively port and its rich connection to English artists and poets. The title, An Impression of Murder, relates to the fact that two of the main characters – Walter Sickert and Edgar Degas, were Impressionist painters. I have known the town extremely well since the 1990s, when you could buy a dilapidated French farmhouse and still get change from a fiver. That’s what a bunch of friends and I decided to do. Read more about An Impression of Murder below.

Please contact me at: gerardgilbert.author@gmail.com