Melanie is a writer, academic and actor with a DCA in Creative Writing from the University of the Sunshine Coast. She has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Arena Magazine, the Brisbane Times, Overland, and Hecate, and various trade publications. Melanie's short fiction has also won or been shortlisted for various literary competitions, including the Scarlett Stiletto Awards, S.D. Harvey Short Story Award, the Lane Cove Literary Award, and Griffith Review Novella competition. She is the former artistic director of Reality Bites Festival, a non-fiction writers' festival based on the Sunshine Coast.
'An addictive, page-turning mystery. Intelligent historical fiction at its very best.' -Toni Jordan, author of The Fragments'A captivating mystery set in wartime Brisbane, framed by an evocative present-day investigation.' -Mandy Sayer, author of Love in the Years of Lunacy'A vivid portrayal of wartime Brisbane.'' -Kristina Olsson, author of Shell and Boy, Lost