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)
Karina Kilmore is a writer and newspaper journalist with more than 30 years’ experience. Under the byline Karina Barrymore, she covered almost every major business scandal and financial event since the 1987 global share market crash and has written for US, UK, Australian and New Zealand publications. Author Website Stand AloneWhere the Truth Lies (2020) …
Katherine Kovacic originally worked as a veterinarian before returning to study to earn an MA, followed by a PhD in Art History. She has an interest in the history of human relationships with animals, particularly as they appear in art. She lives in Melbourne with a Borzoi and a Scottish Deerhound. Author Website Alex Clayton …
Katherine Firkin is a Melbourne journalist, currently with CBS New York. She has over a decade of experience and has worked across every medium – print, online, television and radio. She began her career at the Herald Sun newspaper as a sports reporter before moving on to breaking news and has worked for Seven West …
Natalie was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She has a doctorate in crime fiction. her short stories have won several awards in the annual Scarlet Stiletto competition, run by Sisters in Crime Australia. She currently lives in Sydney. Author Website Schalk Lourens series Schalk Lourens is a policeman in post-apartheid South …