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a i 2 18 saturday april 14 2001 economist sun stouffville tribune books bradford author knew he could spin a good yarn he just needed a dare to get started the brady hunch by roy green staff writer with six successful novels published and a new televi sion series being launched in britain you could be for given for thinking author john brady is living comfortably off his book royal ties jeepers no i wish i was laughed brady from his bradford home it has a glamorous sound but the reality is you couldnt support a familypn what you make especially in canada bradys police procedural are set in dublin and feature inspector matt minogue head of the murder squad for the irish police the garda the sixth in the series a carra king was published in canada in november- and will be released in the us and britain in june people seem to like it and its been wellreceived by the critics but the crit ics dont buy books- said brady in spite of the irish setting the nov els do better in the us than in canada and britain thats the biggest market at present but its hard to pin down solid numbers in canada because of the returns from booksellers to publish ers thenewyorktimessaidofdie series matt minogue the magnetic centre of this superb series and bradys tone of battered lyricism are the music which keep drawing us back but brady does kijow matt minogue is not a lossleader for his publisher torontobased mcarthur company theyre happy with me and im veryhappy with therri i was with harper collins and penguin theyre big but youre like author number 572 f prefer to deal with real people not organizations t he launched his first novel- a stone of the heart in 1988 largely on a dare i was working at oise ontario institute for studies in education aind was phenomenally bored i came across this awful book and told a friend i could do better he dared me to do it it took me six weeks to write it in longhand i only work in longhand it means i get to take trips to dublin to do research i have family there and id be going back soon to research the next see author page 19 and your character sits next to you as you write and says that was stupid when you write something silly brady said he believes his success liesin his characters i dont like plots i just like charac ters i like meeting people in print and your character sits next to you as you write and says that was stupid when you write something silly as he gets older so do i even if the novels dont provide the life of luxury there are other benefits staff photorob alary pht pay that traffic ticket txv vy traffip ticket experts is staffed by expolice officers who will act as your agent in i speedingaccidents careless impaired etc slfe call for free consultation 0 call for free consultation 26uaranteed jffip 905 9403000 441 8 hwy 7 east unionville smftrwjriz v step from the economist simtribune rsivsmfcoufwiifk i4 knrvwwream r rvij