Garry Disher has published sixty titles across multiple genres. With a growing international reputation for his best-selling crime novels, he has won four German and three Australian awards for best crime novel of the year, and been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eleanor Elliott Thomas worked for many years as a lawyer before devoting herself to writing full-time. Her first novel, The Opposite of Success, was published in 2023. She lives in Melbourne.

Rebecca Stead is the author of When You Reach Me, Liar & Spy, First Light, Goodbye Stranger and The List of Things that Will Not Change, and Bob and The Lost Library with Wendy Mass. Her books have been awarded the Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Rebecca lives in New...