Rob McInroy

Rob McInroy is the author of the Bob and Annie Kelty historical crime fiction series. To date there have been four novels – Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street and Moot, published by Muirton Books and Barvick Falls, published by Tippermuir Books.

His short stories have won and been placed in over twenty national and international competitions. In 2018 he was a winner of the Bradford Literature Festival Northern Noir Crime Novel competition with Cuddies Strip, which was also longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association First Blood Dagger award for best debut novel. Barvick Falls was shortlisted for the CWA’s Historical Dagger award in 2026.

He comes from a rural, working class background in Crieff, Perthshire and his writing is all set in the Perthshire area, ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s. He sees writing as a window on his past, allowing the working class voices of his parents’ generation, long stilled, to be heard again. In this way, the generations connect, the traditions continue. As Hamish Henderson put it:

Tomorrow, songs

Will flow free again and new voices

Be borne on the carrying stream.

He has an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in American literature, both from the University of Hull, and is a tutor of creative writing.