Nicola Moriarty lives in Sydney’s northwest with her husband and two daughters. In between various career changes, becoming a mum and studying at Macquarie University, she began to write. Author Website Stand AloneThe Fifth Letter (2017)Those Other Women (2018)The Ex Girlfriend (2019)You Need To Know (2021)Every Last Suspect (2024) Non-CrimeFree-Falling (2012)Paper Chains (2019)
Liane Moriarty is an advertising copywriter turned author who grew up in Sydney, Australia. She became a full time author after returning to university to complete a Masters degree at Macquarie University where she completed her first published novel, Three Wishes. She has written novels in the romance genre and children’s fiction as well as …
Title: Helga’s WebAuthor: Jon ClearyPages: 288Published Date: 1970Publisher: Harper Collins AustraliaSeries Details: 2nd book in the Scobie Malone seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisSet in Sydney, Australia, where a young girl is involved in blackmail, Detective-Sergeant Malone reaches Helga too late to warn her about her dangerous game. She has already received her final pay-off.My Review of …
Title: The Low RoadAuthor: Chris WomersleyPages: 280Published Date: 2007Publisher: Scribe PublicationsSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisA young petty criminal, Lee, wakes in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money, his memory hazy as to how he got there. Soon he meets Wild, a doctor who …
Title: The High CommissionerAuthor: Jon ClearyPages: 256Published Date: 1966Publisher: Harper Collins AustraliaSeries Details: 1st book in the Scobie Malone seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThe High Commissioner is accused of murder, and in Sydney Scobie Malone is given the job of going to London and bringing him back. At the same time the High Commissioner’s murder …
James McKenzie Watson writes fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. His novel Denizen won the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize as well as a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship and a 2021 KSP Residential Fellowship. His writing has appeared in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and the Newtown Review of Books. He works as a …
Laraine Stephens lives in Beaumaris, a bayside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. With an Arts degree from the University of Melbourne, a Diploma of Education and a Graduate Diploma in Librarianship, she worked in secondary schools as a Head of Library. On retirement, Laraine turned her hand to the craft of crime writing. Reggie Da Costa …
The Ned Kelly Awards, awarded by the Australian Crime Writers Association have been announced for 2022 with the ACWA chair Karina Kilmore congratulating all 135 authors who entered this year’s award. The full details are included in the announcement below: The Australian Crime Writers Association received 135 entries for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards, in another strong …
Title: Vale Byron BayAuthor: Wayne GroganPages: 312Published Date: 2006Publisher: Brandl & SchlesingerSeries Details: stand aloneBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisThe publisher of Vale Byron Bay doesn’t provide a short summary of the book – instead it contains the following tribute.’Wayne Grogan’s sentences open like flowers and snap shut like switchknives. In his power-driven language he prtrays …
Having received a degree in engineering from Cambridge, Robert Schofield worked as a structural engineering consultant, engineering signature architecture including East Croydon Station, The Eden Project, Madrid Airport, Lichfield Theatre, and the London Imax Theatre. He then travelled to Australia and finding no call for creative architectural engineering in Perth, he adapted his skills to …