Crime pays for Eoin Colfer as books make €2.6m

Crime pays — at least the fictional kind — for Ireland’s best selling children’s author Eoin Colfer, as accumulated profits at his book firm topped €2.6m last year.

The former Wexford primary school teacher has sold more than 25m books translated into 44 languages around the globe about the adventures of his teenage criminal mastermind, Artemis Fowl.

Now, accounts filed by Colfer’s firm, Artemis Fowl Ltd, show that the firm’s accumulated profits last year jumped by just under €800,000 going from €1.825m to €2.622m.