Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2021 finalist The Joanne Burns Award
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2017
winner
Scarlet Stiletto Awards
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Best Story with a Disabled Protagonist
For 'The Mt Fairview Ladies Outreach Program'.
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2014
winner
Scarlet Stiletto Awards
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Best Environmental Crime Story
for 'The Island'.
Awards for Works
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y
Shadow Over Edmund Street
Carlton
:
Journeys to Words Publishing
,
2021
21171390
2021
single work
novel
thriller
'Raised in a poverty-scarred part of Auckland, Edwina is a battler. Life revolves around the church and her mundane job unpacking vegetables. Meanwhile, a new generation has gentrified her suburb. After winning a gym membership, she loses weight, gets a new hairstyle, clothes, job - and makes a new friend, Rose. Edwina's life is brutally taken, a swift and silent killer leaving no clues. Her murder seems unsolvable until a casual comment sends Inspector Alex Cameron and his seasoned team trawling through Edwina's childhood. Can they uncover the link in time to save the next victim? Alex Cameron must unravel the shadow hanging over Edmund Street. Everyone and no one is a suspect, until ...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2022 shortlisted Ngaio Marsh Award — Best First Novel
- 2022 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2022 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2022 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
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