H.Y. Hanna is an award-winning mystery writer and the author of the bestselling Oxford Tearoom Mysteries. After graduating from Oxford University, Hsin-Yi tried her hand at a variety of jobs, before returning to her first love: writing. She worked as a freelance journalist for several years, with articles and short stories published in the UK, …
Jack Heath is the author of REPLICA and many other sci-fi thrillers for young adults. He started writing THE LAB when he was 13 and had a publishing contract for it at 18. The book has since been adapted into a screenplay. His crime novels for adults feature FBI consultant Timothy Blake and they are …
Meg and Tom Keneally is the pseudonym used by the daughter / father combination to write the Monsarrat series. Meg Keneally started her working life as a junior public affairs officer at the Australian Consulate-General in New York, before moving to Dublin to work as a sub-editor and freelance features writer. On returning to Australia, …
Kylie Kaden was raised in Queensland where she holidayed on the Sunshine Coast, a part of the world that brought her inspiration for the setting of Losing Kate. She holds an honours degree in Psychology from Queensland University of Technology and works as a freelance writer and columnist. She now lives in Brisbane with her …
Patricia Kristensen is a lawyer and mother of five, living on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. She studied law and lived in Tasmania for around 8 years. Her books have earned a bronze medal at the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Awards in the category of Best Fiction in Australia and New Zealand and longlist …
Adriana was born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the age of nine her family moved to Australia. She travelled extensively throughout her youth and was fifteen before finally settling down in a small country town outside Coffs Harbour. She has been a nurse, a singer songwriter, a professional artist, has studied history …
Born in London of Irish parents, Aoife Clifford grew up in New South Wales, studied Arts/Law at the Australian National University, Canberra and now lives in Melbourne. Aoife has won two premier short story prizes for crime fiction in Australia – the Scarlet Stiletto (2007) and the S.D. Harvey Ned Kelly Award in 2012, among …
Diane Hester was a professional violist attending the Eastman School of Music and playing with the Rochester Philharmonic. When she joined the Adelaide Symphony she made the move to Australia. Her passions have included knitting, spinning, gardening, photography, and anything to do with nature. I’m a life-long animal lover and for ten years ran a …
Julian Leatherdale’s first love was theatre. On graduation, he wrote lyrics for four comedy cabarets and a two-act musical. Julian discovered a passion for popular history as a staff writer, researcher and photo editor for the 16-volume Time-Life’s Australians At War series in the late 1980s. Julian was an image researcher at the State Library …
D.L. Hicks is a police officer with the Victorian Police. In his twenty-five years of service he has been on the frontline of everything from drug busts to serious collisions and all manner of violent crime. He lives in Geelong with his family. Stand AloneThe Devil Inside (2020)The Fallback (2022)
