Dave Warner is an author, musician and screenwriter. His first novel City of Light won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction, and Before it Breaks (2015) the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime fiction. Dave Warner originally came to national prominence with his gold album Mug's Game, and his band Dave Warner's from the Suburbs. He has been named a Western Australian State Living Treasure and has been inducted into the WAMi Rock'n'Roll of Renown.