Katherine Howell and Sulari Gentill - Jacqui Horwood interrogates two of Australia’s top crime authors

Sisters in Crime national co-convenor Jacqui Horwood interrogates two of Australia’s top crime authors – Katherine Howell and Sulari Gentill – about their new books, both just out for the New Year.

Silent Fear (Pan Macmillan Australia) is the fifth book in the fast-paced and thrilling series starring Detective Ella Marconi by ex-ambulance officer Katherine Howell – the only author to ever win two Sisters in Crime’s Davitt (Adult Fiction) Awards. In Silent Fear, on a searing summer’s day in Sydney, paramedic Holly Garland rushes to an emergency to find a man collapsed with a bullet wound in the back of his head ...

The third in Howell’s series, Cold Justice, was selected as a Big Book Club book of the month last year as well as winning the 2011 Davitt. Howell, now residing on the Gold Coast, draws on her fifteen years as a paramedic for her best-selling crime fiction. She is currently working on her PhD at the University of Queensland, studying female doctor investigators in crime fiction. http://www.katherinehowell.com

Miles Off Course (Pantera Press) is the third novel by Sulari Gentill to feature gentleman sleuth, artist Rowland Sinclair. Early 1933 sees Rowland Sinclair and his bohemian companions abandon the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic to search the High Country for a missing Aboriginal stockman from Rowland’s family property. Stockmen, gangsters and a belligerent writer all gather to the fray, as the investigation becomes embroiled with a much darker conspiracy.

Gentill set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating in law, and later abandoned her legal career to write books. She grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains.

Her debut novel, A Few Right-Thinking Men, was shortlisted for Best First Book in our region for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011. Her fourth Rowland Sinclair mystery, Paving the Way, is due out in August. http://www.sularigentill.com

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