Angela Savage Angela Savage i(A85115 works by)
Born: Established: 1966 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Angela Savage travelled to Laos on a six-month scholarship in 1992 and ended up staying in Asia for six years. She was based in Vientiane, then Hanoi and Bangkok where she set up and headed the Australian Red Cross HIV/AIDS subregional program. She is now based in Melbourne.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 longlisted Peter Carey Short Story Award for 'The Black Feather'.
2014 runner up Scarlet Stiletto Awards Best Story with a Political Edge for 'The Elephant Thief'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Dying Beach Jayne Keeney P.I. In Krabi Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2013 6002573 2013 single work novel crime

'A new case for expat private investigator Jayne Keeney.

As Jayne and Rajiv holiday in Krabi, Jayne can't stop her mind straying to thoughts of the future: a successful business, perhaps even a honeymoon. Who would have thought she could be so content?

But then their tour guide's body is found floating in the shallows and no one can explain the marks around her neck. Jayne and Rajiv are pulled into a case that the police have already decided isn't one: a case that will pull at the seams of their fledgling relationships and lead Jayne into grave danger. ' (Publisher's blurb)

2014 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2014 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best Novel
y separately published work icon The Teardrop Tattoos Brunswick : Angela Savage , 2012 7798549 2012 single work short story crime

'In this award-winning short story set in Melbourne, Australia, an anonymous narrator is released from prison into public housing near a child care centre. When she receives a complaint about her dog, a restricted breed, she blames a mother whose infant attends the centre. Acquiring disguises from the local op shop, she stalks the mother and sets about plotting a terrible revenge for the loss of her dog.' (Publication summary)

2011 winner Scarlet Stiletto Awards
y separately published work icon The Half-Child Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2010 Z1726672 2010 single work novel crime detective

'Jayne Keeney is a fiesty thirty-something Aussie who has been living in Bangkok for many years. She has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Australian woman in a seedy Thai coastal town. Maryanne Delbeck was happy and harmless, her father refuses to believe she took her own life. Jayne immerses herself in the case, navigating the backstreet world of Thai ladyboys, monks, strippers, expats and corrupt officials.

'Maryanne's death is not the only mystery awaiting Jayne among Pattaya's neon signs and go-go bars. While working undercover at the orphanage where Maryanne volunteered, Jayne discovers something far more sinister. Now her life is in danger, her case is still unsolved and she barely has time for dinner with her handsome new love interest, Rajiv. With love and death both circling, Jayne now has two cases to crack and very little time to do it.

'The Half-Child is not your standard crime novel, and Jayne Keeney is not your everyday detective.' (From the publisher's website.)

2011 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best Novel
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