Lawyer X

By:   Anthony Dowsley, Patrick Carlyon
Read by:   Abbe Holmes
Imprint:   Bolinda/HarperCollins Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Simultaneous Release
Dimensions:   Height: 134mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   273g
ISBN:   9781460781081
ISBN 10:   1460781082
Publication Date:   07 September 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Anthony Dowsley has been a crime reporter with the Herald Sun since 2004. He has covered unsolved homicides, law and order issues and police corruption. He broke the Lawyer X story in 2014, despite court action by Victoria Police. He is recognised as the driving force for subsequent Lawyer X inquiries, culminating in the royal commission into police informants, which began in 2019. He was recognised for both these investigations with the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award in 2019. Patrick Carlyon has been a senior features writer at the Herald Sun for a decade. He has won two Walkley Awards for feature writing: one for his coverage of the Black Saturday fires, the other for his account of a war medic in Afghanistan. He and Anthony Dowsley shared the Gold Quill award, among other awards, from the Melbourne Press Club in 2018 for their investigation into Nicola Gobbo. Abbe is one of Australia's most recognised mainstream voice actors, known for her versatility and character ability. She's been a voiceover technique coach and demo producer for over 15 years, teaching the mastery of voiceover for both commercial and non-commercial work, character voices and audiobook narration. Abbe's a proud member of the Equity Section of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) where she has a position on the MEAA board. She has also worked on screen, producing and performing in two short films.