Darryl Greer

Darryl was born, educated and spent the first chapter of his working life in Queensland, Australia. He was raised and educated on the Gold Coast but his education was cut short – by him, due to the sheer boredom of it – and at the age of 15 he left to work on a milk run. He went on to work as a window cleaner, cocktail barman, wine waiter, clerk, car salesman and a guitarist/backing singer in a rather hopeless rock band. Eventually, he got his act together, studied Law and at 28 owned his own law firm in Queensland’s far north. After nine years in the tropics he became bored with constant blue skies, gently swaying coconut palms and scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef, so he sold up and moved with his family to London. He practised there for twenty years specialising in commercial litigation, mostly at partner level in the City. In 2004 he returned to Queensland and now lives with his wife and daughter in the Gold Coast hinterland.

As an author, Darryl has written in his spare time for as long as he can remember. Prior to his focussing on novels, he had a respectable number of paid articles published in British and international magazines. In 2009 he self-published his novel “The Election,” a political thriller. In 2012 he won a competition with one of his other manuscripts “Calvus,” and this led to a publishing contract with Morris Publishing Australia. With the demise of that publisher he has re-published that title himself.

Following another successful competition win, Darryl signed contracts with Custom Book Publications for the publication of three of his novels. “Agnus Dei,” a legal thriller was published in February 2014, ‘Sleeping With Angels,’ another legal thriller followed in November 2014 and ‘A Dragon In The Snow’ in October 2015.

Darryl continues to write and has a novel sitting on the back-burner waiting for the right moment to be dusted off and completed but meanwhile he is taking an interest in scriptwriting.

Apart from writing, Darryl enjoys walking, travel, cinema and, of course, reading thrillers.