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I'm an international journalist, editor, teacher and author of four crime series, a psychological-suspense, a stand-alone novel and a non-fiction book on Papua New Guinea (where I was born). I work from a ramshackle farmhouse near Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia where I live with my muso hubby, two sons and a very cheeky Bluey.
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The Murder Mystery Book Club series
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK CLUB series:
Bored to tears with her literary book club, Alicia Finlay and her sister Lynette start a club to die for—a Murder Mystery Book Club, that is! No sooner have they gathered six crime buffs together, a real-life mystery lands in their lap. Then another, and another…
In each modern, stand-alone adventure, the Aussie-based book club must draw on their own knack for solving puzzles — and the wisdom of the world's most famous fictional sleuths — to work out whodunit and why.
Can you solve these mysteries before the Book Club do?
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NEW! Sleuths of Last Resort
Meet the Sleuths of Last Resort — five total strangers with a passion for puzzles, a unique set of skills, and more baggage than an airport carousel:
* Cluedo champ Merry
* Reckless PI Kila
* Top crime author Martin
* Dinosaur ex-cop Earle
* Fearless crime reporter Frankie
Individually they're screw-ups. Together they're an unstoppable force…
Without a Word: A Ghostwriter Mystery 7
Gutsy ghostwriter Roxy Parker is back, this time on a 20-year-old missing person's case. Her client was just a child when her entire family vanished and wants Roxy to tell her story now. Roxy’s more interested in the past—why did a child's family disappear? How could they do it in one night? And what 'sinister' event set it all off? Excerpt.
After the Ferry: A Gripping Psychological Novel
It's the 1990s, pre-mobile phones, and a young traveller must make a terrifying choice—jump ship with a seductive stranger or stay cocooned on the Greek ferry and miss what could be the love of her life? One choice leads to true love. One leads to murder. So which is which? A story of love and loss across two parallel lives. Excerpt.
Do Not Go Gentle: A Posthumous Mystery
Lulu is dead. She's hovering over the crime scene. Can you help solve her murder before she heads to eternity thinking her son just killed her? A deep but light-hearted posthumous mystery.
Read an excerpt.
Do Not Go Alone: A Posthumous Mystery
Twentysomething party girl Maisie should not be dead. Her party's still pumping and she's missing all the fun. Can you help her solve her murder before the creepy dead people convince her to cross?
Read an excerpt.
An Island Lost (a novel)
When Vilia's mother dies she leaves her a remote island on the tip of Papua New Guinea, and a series of clues to the disappearance of her father 30 years ago. Thus begins an enthralling family mystery that sweeps Vilia from New York to the wilds of the Pacific... Read an excerpt.
