Tom Howard is not only the pseudonym of John Howard Reid, but is also the name of the protagonist in many of his books. Funnily enough (or maybe it isn’t funny, who knows) the protagonist in other books is Jack Reid. Reid was born in Sydney and graduated from Melbourne University, serving in the police …
Hooper attended Lauriston Girls’ School before commencing an arts degree at Melbourne University. She then went to New York’s Columbia University to study creative writing on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her True Crime book Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee was released in 2008 and took out numerous awards including the 2009 Ned Kelly Award and …
Brett Hoffmann was born in Australia, but moved with his family to Europe at age three, beginning a lifelong love of travel. He completed degrees in Law and Arts at ANU and has worked as an international management consultant. He lives in Melbourne. Stand AloneThe Contract (2010)The Race (2011)
Michael Herrmann was born in Brisbane, Queensland. BREAKFASTINFUR was nominated for a 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, for the stage, Michael is the book writer and producer of GABBA GABBA HEY!, the world’s first punk rock musical. He now lives in Perth, Western Australia. White Trash TrilogyMichael Herrmann’s White Trash Trilogy provides …
Working in the criminal justice system for nearly ten years, Jarad’s first novel, Head Shot, was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Awards in the best unpublished manuscript category in 2004. He has had numerous short stories and articles published in both the print and virtual media. Rubens McCauley seriesRubens McCauley is a detective with the …
Annie Hauxwell was born in London and emigrated with her family to Australia while still quite young. She abandoned the law to work as an investigator for a private firm, and after working as a screenwriter she turned her hand to novels. She now lives in Castlemaine, Victoria. Author Website Catherine Berlin seriesCatherine Berlin is …
Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM is an Australian novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge. He studied law at the University of Western Australia (1963) and Oxford. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and has two children. Hasluck’s books fall into two categories, which he describes as ‘moral thriller genre and satire’, …
Jane Harper was born in Manchester in the UK, and moved to Australia with her family at age eight. She returned to the UK as a teenager before returning to Australia in 2008. She worked first on the Geelong Advertiser, and in 2011 took up a role with the Herald Sun in Melbourne. She lives …
Beverley Harper was an Australian author of novels set in Africa. Most of her novels were translated into German and published by Bastei Lübbe. Her final novel, Footprints of Lion, was completed by her husband after her death from cancer in 2002. Her ashes lie on the banks of the Boteti River in Botswana. Stand …
Derek is married, has two grown-up children and lives most of the time in Avalon on Pittwater, and some of the time in Doonan on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Kingfish, salmon, bonito, bream and flathead live just outside his back door and the surf rises a short walk from the front door. Someone had to have …
