Marshall Browne is the author of ten published books of fiction. For 37 years, Browne was a banker - in Australia, Hong Kong, England and Bhutan. Several of his books have been published in the US. The Eye of the Abyss was a Gumshoe Award finalist, a Publisher's Weekly Best Book, and one of the Australian newspaper's Books of the Year. Browne's Inspector Anders series is also published in the States. The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders won a Ned Kelly Award and in 2001 was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee and a US Library Journal Best Book.