Paul Waters is the author of Murder in Moonlit Square, the first in his new Irish-Indian cosy crime series set in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. It’s published in hardback, paperback and ebook by the No Exit imprint of Bedford Square Publishers in Britain and Ireland, in audiobook by WF Howes (narrated by Paul Tylak), and in India and south Asia by Penguin India. Murder in Moonlit Square entered the Indian fiction bestseller charts at No.3.
Paul is also the author of Blackwatertown, published in paperback and ebook by Unbound, and audiobook by WF Howes (narrated by Patrick Moy), in 2020. He is also the author of The Obituarist, and short stories in the Taking Liberties (published by Breakthrough Books) and Christmas Murders on Bedford Square (pub by Bedford Square Publishers) anthologies.
He is also an award-winning BBC producer, reporter and presenter – most recently of the BBC World Service In The Studio arts documentary strand. Paul is also co-host of the award-winning We’d Like A Word books and authors podcast – shortlisted for 2020 Books Podcast of the Year – which features globally bestselling writers, emerging authors and other insiders from the book industry, including editors, agents and publishers.
Paul is UK Director of the annual Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London (with offshoots in Oxford and Sutton), which features Indian and south Asian authors and creatives, and literary work relating to the region.
He is also Co-Founder and Co-Director (with the author Tony Kent) of the annual Chiltern Kills national crime and thriller writing festival in Gerrards Cross, in aid of the Centrepoint charity combatting youth homelessness.
Paul grew up in Belfast during ‘the Troubles’, was involved in cross-community peace groups and went on to report and produce for BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service and Channel 5.
His claim to fame is making Pelé his dinner. But Paul has also covered elections in the USA, created an alternative G8 Summit in a South African township, gone undercover in Zimbabwe, conducted football crowds, reported from Swiss drug shooting-up rooms, smuggled a satellite dish into Cuba to produce the first BBC live programmes from the island and produced the World Service’s first live coverage of the 9/11 attacks on America.
Paul has taught in Poland, driven a cab in England, busked in Wales, been a night club cook in New York, designed computer systems in Dublin, presented podcasts for Germans and organised music festivals for beer drinkers. He lives in Buckinghamshire and has two children.