Rachael Brown Rachael Brown i(14754156 works by)
Gender: Female
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Rachael Brown is an investigative report for the ABC. Rachael is also the creator, investigator and host of 'Trace' the ABC's first true-crime podcast, that was later published by Scribe, becoming the first podcast-turned book in Australian publishing history.

'Trace' (podcast) won the 2017 Walkley Award for Innovation, and two Quill Awards in 2017 for Innovation and Best Podcast.

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y separately published work icon Trace : Who Killed Maria James? Melbourne : Scribe , 2018 14754261 2018 single work non-fiction autobiography crime

'Every cop has a case that dug its claws in and would not let go. For veteran detective Ron Iddles, it was his very first homicide case—the 1980 murder of single mother Maria James at the back of her bookshop. He never managed to solve it, and it still hurts like hell.

Maria’s two sons, Mark and Adam, have lived in a holding pattern longer than Rachael Brown has been alive. When the investigative journalist learned that a crucial witness’s evidence had never seen daylight, the case would start to consume her—just as it had the detective nearly four decades prior—so she asked for his blessing, and that of the James brothers, to review Maria's case.

In her exhaustive and exhausting 16-month investigation for the podcast Trace, Rachael reviewed initial suspects, found one of her own, and uncovered devastating revelations about a forensic bungle and possible conspiracies that led to calls for the coroner to hold a new inquest.

This is a mesmerizing account, as Rachael traces back through her investigation—one that blew the dust off a 38-year-old cold case, and gave a voice to the forgotten and the abused.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 longlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best True Crime
2019 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2019 shortlisted Davitt Award Best True Crime Book
2019 longlisted Crime Writers' Association (UK) The CWA Gold Dagger
2018 longlisted Walkley Award Best Non-Fiction Book
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