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I'm thrilled! Present Tense has been shortlisted for the 2020 Ned Kelly Awards, for debut crime fiction. This clip has the full list

What if Sherlock Holmes were Polish? What if he and/or John Watson were Indian or Irish or Australian or Japanese? How would their worlds look if one or both was from a completely different background? That's the brief I was given when I was asked to contribute a...

This is one of a series of joint posts in the She Said/She Said series, in which Atlin Merrick and I muse on writing topics. Atlin is publisher of Improbable Press and author of The Night They Met and The Day They Met.  You can find the post here:...

I'm delighted that Present Tense has made it to the shortlist of this year's Davitt Crime Fiction Awards - and in such great company.  Here's the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP9S9rU_-lw&feature=youtu.be  

This is the last of three blogs on reading. Does where you read a book affect your understanding of it? I ask because of a conversation I had with a friend. We were discussing books, and I said I was reading Olive Kitteridge. She said she’d read it but hadn’t enjoyed...

Some of the world's best crime writers (among them Lee Child, Val McDermid, Sara Paretsky) talk about their detectives - and how hard it is to kill them off....

I am extremely chuffed that Present Tense has been long-listed for this year's Davitt Awards. It's in great company! https://www.sistersincrime.org.au/womens-crime-wave-continues-davitt-awards-longlist-announced/

When it comes to writing, where does respect stop and censorship begin? Atlin Merrick and I have differing views and so we wrote a joint blog about this. It's the second in a series of three blogs on reading

I was proud to be part of launching the New South Wales chapter of Sisters in Crime, in an online panel called Deadly, Dangerous, Dazzling – the allure of South African crime fiction. Thriller writer L A Larkin and I had a blast discussing locations, characters and...