Peter de Vries Book List
Peter is a lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney and has worked in music teacher education at the tertiary level and as a primary school music teacher. Stand AloneThe Games (2002)
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Marianne Delacourt Book List
Marianne Delacourt is the name that speculative fiction author Marianne de Pierres publishes her humorous crime fiction novels under. The stories are sexy and brash with a hint of the paranormal to play around with. Whereas de Pierres is dark and satirical, Delacourt is light and funny. Tara Sharp seriesTara Sharp is a private investigator …
Joy Dettman Book List
Joy Dettman was born in Echuca in Victoria and now lives in Melbourne. Joy, a mother-of-four, is a full-time writer and a published author of several award-winning stories. Mallawindy seriesThoughtful thrillers set in the small town of MallawindyMallawindy (1998)Yesterday’s Dust (2001) Woody Creek seriesThis is a dark series that is set in Woody Creek in …
Michelle de Kretser Book List
Michelle was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka before she emigrated to Australia with her family when she was fourteen. She taught in Montpellier, took an MA at the Sorbonne, and worked for several years as an editor. She now lives in Melbourne. Her first novel, The Rose Grower, was published in 1999. Her second novel, …
Karen M. Davis Book List
Karen Davis was a New South Wales police officer for twenty years starting her career on the streets of Newtown in Sydney’s inner west. She laer worked as a detective and undercover operative in a variety of sections, all of which specialised in the investigation of organised crime. Keeping memoirs as her experiences as a …
Marele Day Book List
Marele Day’s four book Claudia Valentine series has become a minor classic in Australian crime writing, but her Lambs of God (1998) was even more highly acclaimed as an original and provocative literary work, published in the US by Riverhead and in the UK by Sceptre. Her most recent novel was Mrs Cook, a fictionalised …
Miranda Darling Book List
Miranda Darling began her career as a fashion model in Paris and London, then went on to read English and Modern Languages at Oxford University. She travelled widely to countries such as Russia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Namibia and Indonesia before returning to Australia to complete a Masters in Strategic Studies and Defence. Stevie Duveen seriesStevie Duveen …
Emma Darcy Book List
Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by husband and wife writing team Frank and Wendy Brennan, an internationally successful romance author. Since Frank died in 1995, Wendy has continued writing under the name on her own. Her love of murder mysteries has now drawn her into creating the Who Killed…? series. She lives on the …
Mark Dapin Book List
Mark Dapin moved to Australia in the late 1980s. He is the author of Strange Country, has been editor in chief of ACP’s men’s magazines, and is a hugely popular columnist for Fairfax’s Good Weekend. He lives in Sydney with his partner and two children. Author Website Stand AloneKing of the Cross (2009)R&R (2015) True …
John Dale Book List
John Dale was born in Sydney but grew up in Tasmania. Since returning to Sydney he has spent time in the Attorney General’s Department, taught writing at university and worked as a doorman. John Dale’s first book, ‘Dark Angel’ won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel. Author Website Stand AloneDark Angel (1996)The …
