Andrew Nugent lives in Ireland and is a former practising trial lawyer who now, as a monk of the order of St. Benedict, is Prior at Glenstal Abbey, a boys' school in Limerick. He worked for some years in a monastry in Nigeria, West Africa and has spent time in Israel, Chicago and New York. He is the author of a non-fiction work The Slow-Release Miracle. The Four Courts Murder is his first novel.