About P.J. Brooke

Author photograph: Lin Li. Taken at Biblocafe, Glasgow

P.J. Brooke is the writing name of husband and wife team Philip J. O’Brien and Jane Brooke.

Phil O’Brien worked for a time at the Foreign Office, but left after being told that a poncho (however sober in colour) and Che Guevara beret was unsuitable clothing for a government office. After the Foreign Office he taught Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. His work took him to almost every country in Latin America, particularly Chile, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela, often during dangerous and difficult periods. Jane has had a quieter life, mostly in Local Government and Consultancy, but this did take her to New York as an advisor for the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Phil and Jane divide their time between Scotland and the oldest part of Granada city, the Albaycin.

Blood Wedding is their first novel featuring the half Scots, half Spanish Sub-Inspector Max Romero.

Read an interview with Phil and Jane in The Scotsman.