Dervla McTiernan is an internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed writer. Dervla is the author of The Ruin and The Scholar, both set in Ireland. The Ruin is the first in the detective Cormac Reilly series and was named one of Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Crime Mystery and Thrillers of 2018 and an Amazon.com Best Book of 2018 and has been optioned for TV by Hopscotch. Dervla is Irish and lives in Perth, Australia.