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 in autumn 2025.

His short stories have won and been placed in over twenty national and international competitions. The best of these are collected in Burials and Other Stories, published by Muirton Books.

In 2018 he was a winner of the Bradford Literature Festival Northern Noir Crime Novel competition with Cuddies Strip and in 2019, he won the Darling Axe Novel First Page Prize with another novel, Cloudland.

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 describes 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.