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I'm an international journalist, editor, teacher and author of dozens of books, including four feel-good crime series, a psychological-suspense, a stand-alone novel and a non-fiction book on Papua New Guinea, where I was born and bred.
Known as a hybrid author, I am traditionally published in Europe and Japan, and self-published in the English language, globally.
Working from a ramshackle farmhouse near Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia, I live with my muso hubby, a very cheeky Bluey, and two boomerang sons (yep, they just keep returning 😉 )
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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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Sleuths of Last Resort series
Meet the "Super Sleuths" — five total strangers with a passion for puzzles, a unique set of skills, and more baggage than an airport carousel:
* Cluedo champ and mum Merry
* Reckless private eye Kila
* Bestselling crime author Martin
* Dinosaur ex-detective Earle
* Fearless crime reporter Frankie
Individually they're screw-ups. Together they're an unstoppable force…
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.
The Ghostwriter Mystery series
From the Amazon best-selling author comes ghostwriter Roxy Parker. She has a wicked sense of humour, a taste for cheap plonk and an obsession with crime. It's a good thing, then, that her clients keep getting murdered…
In each stand-alone adventure, Roxy sets out to ghost-write the story of someone rich or famous, but ends up stumbling on deadly secrets, dirty family laundry and more corpses than you can poke a keyboard at. With the help of her motley mates, including cool cop Gilda, hunky on/off boyfriend Max and his obnoxious sister Caroline, Roxy must solve crimes past and present to ensure she gets to "The End", alive!
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.
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?
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...
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