kcIt's Friday afternoon and any excuse to not do the day job, so a quick list of favourite Aus/Nz authors for your disagreement 😘
1/ Garry Disher (AUS) - master at dark arts of rural noir / (and suburban / city noir) as well as morally ambiguous central characters (fingers always crossed for more Wyatt books from him).
2/ Paul Thomas (NZ) under-discussed author of the terrific Tito Ihaka series. Well worth tracking down if you're a fan of police procedurals with a great set of twists.
3/ Dave Warner (AUS) - great back catalogue of police procedural / pi / accidental detective novels with a strong sense of place and time (some of the early ones were just gloriously funny).
4/ and 5/ Recent Ngaio Marsh Award Winners Becky Manawatu and Jacqueline Bublitz (NZ) - astounding books from both of these writers exploring very different aspects of crime and consequence.
6/, 7/ and 8/ Aoife Clifford, Shelley Burr and Margaret Hickey who are following in the footsteps of Jane Harper (AUS) when it comes to rural Australian crime.
9/ Sulari Gentill (AUS) who writes an historical series that's packed with factual components, serious subject matter delivered in a seriously entertaining manner (her recent couple of meta-fiction have been fab as well).
10/ From the no longer with us and boy do we miss them category - the Peter's (Temple and Corris: AUS). Trailblazers.
Evan