Reviews & Interviews

Praise for Behind the Night Bazaar

“A resounding debut…Behind the Night Bazaar is an exotic detective novel tinged with darkness that fearlessly plunges into the dangerous Thai backstreets, with a plot that unfolds with defiant assurance” (Australian Crime Fiction Database).

“Both an engrossing crime thriller and an exploration of skewed notions of love, social responsibility and cultural superiority” (Judges report, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2004 for Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer).

“Taut, edgy and vividly realized…delivers the ironies and moral complexities of the best crime thrillers.” (Garry Disher, cover blurb, Behind the Night Bazaar).

“Thought-provoking…thoroughly readable and…entertaining…this debut has all the makings of a long-running serial.” (Jeff Glorfeld, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald).

“Coolly elegant with a lovely sense of place…literary…without sacrificing the requisite violence, corrupt police [and] edgy social commentary…” (Graeme Blundell – Crime File, Weekend Australian).

“Crime fiction has never been so intellectually and sexually stimulating” (Reader’s review, Australasian Crime Fiction database).

Other accolades

The Sunday Age published a profile piece on 11 June 2006 under the heading ‘Crime with a conscience’, Preview, p.41.

Good Reading Magazine (Sept 2006) gave Behind the Night Bazaar five stars (“outstanding”) and recommends it for book clubs.

On the Recommended Reading – Criminally Good Reads page of the Reading Room, Yarra-Melbourne Regional Library, I make both the ‘Australian Crime’ and the ‘Women Stars’ list–in highly esteemed company.