In Outside the Law 2 some of our best crime writers take you on a trip into the shadows of Australian society.  You’ll meet crooks who just can’t help themselves; killers with twisted logic or hearts of darkness; and cops who daily walk the thinnest of lines to keep them at bay, and away from the rest of us.

Author

John Kerr

John Kerr worked as a police roundsman and court report for a daily newspaper in New Zealand, and has resided in Melbourne and Sydney since 1977. He has published many true crime books, including Untold Violence; Walsh Street; Neddy: the life and crimes of Arthur 'Neddy' Smith; The Phillip Island Murder; Hellbent: Ces Waters and Me; and Roger Rogerson's memoir, The Dark Side. He is the author of Wanted: John & Lucy about the helicopter hijack and prison break, Bloody Relations: true stories of murder in the family and a series of 96-page books on true-crime themes. He is working on this country's first book on its killings by contract, The Hit Men, and a dictionary of Crime & Punishment in Australia, to be published in 2010.

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Series: Commuter Crime

Lindy Cameron

Lindy Cameron wanted to be a famous scientist when she grew up but became a surburban journalist instead, until she got bored filling the gaps between the ads and switched to book editing because it meant she didn't have to interview people. She is now a crime writer - which is what she wanted to be in the second place.

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Series: Bryn Gideon

Series: Kit O`Malley

Series: Scarlet Stiletto

Series: Sherlock Holmes

Liz Filleul

Melbourne author and freelance editor, Liz had won two commendations before 'Brought to Book', her story about women fans of school girl stories, took out first prize in 2004. Born in the English Midlands, educated on the Welsh coast, and now living on top of a Victorian mountain with her Aussie husband, Liz gave up being a convenor of Sisters in Crime so she could enter the Scarlet Stilettos. She had a children's picture book, Tumbler, published in 2001; and her first crime novel, To All Appearances, Dead, will be published in the United Kingdom in 2007.

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Review THE FIRST CUT - Scarlet Stiletto Award Winners, edited by Lindy Cameron
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 3 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - Outside the Law 3
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Review MEANER THAN FICTION - Lindy Cameron (ed)
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - Meaner than Fiction, Lindy Cameron
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Peter Haddow

Peter Haddow was a founding editor of Brave New Word and has contributed to various newspapers and magazines. A former police officer he has also been an adviser for film and television, including Blue Heelers, Halifax and Water Rats.

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Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 2 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 3 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - Outside the Law 3
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Review HODDLE STREET: THE AMBUSH AND THE TRAGEDY - Peter Haddow
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Monday, October 1, 2007

Robin Bowles

Melbourne based, true and fictional Crime writer.

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Review Into the Darkness, Robin Bowles
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Review NO JUSTICE - Robin Bowles
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Review ROUGH JUSTICE - Robin Bowles
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Blog Currently Reading - Rough Justice, Robin Bowles
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 2 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 3 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - Outside the Law 3
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Review MEANER THAN FICTION - Lindy Cameron (ed)
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - Meaner than Fiction, Lindy Cameron
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Review THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MASTERPIECE - Robin Bowles
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Blog Currently Reading - The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece, Robin Bowles
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Review THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN YO-YO - Robin Bowles
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Blog Currently Reading - The Curse of the Golden Yo-Yo, Robin Bowles
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Ruth Wykes

Even though she has been writing all her life, in one form or another, 2010 will be the year Ruth Wykes has her first taste of being a published author. She has co-written a true crime book with friend and mentor, Lindy Cameron. Women Who Kill will be available in May. Her interest in true crime and her love of crime fiction is reflected in her personal library; the only thing that competes with the resident felines for domination of her modest, but happy, home. For ten years Ruth was editor and publisher of a magazine, until she grew tired of the constant battle between wanting to write something of reasonable quality, then trying to sell it to a readership that was yearning for something quick and easy to digest. A little like the trends in our Western diets really. These days Ruth is often bemused by the knowledge that she works in a place that sells murder weapons, crime-concealment tools, and other apparently malevolent stock for the criminally minded – Bunnings. It has certainly made her look a little harder at some of the customers who ask her for rope, shovels and chainsaws. At the same time it offers up some interesting material for her imagination, and has inspired some of the more random moments in the crime fiction novel she is currently writing. She remains unclear about her role in the house she shares with five cats. There are moments when she feels like the unpaid cleaner, cook and masseuse of the menagerie – and other times where she just feels like she has been slotted somewhere into the predominantly feline hierarchy. She harbors a dream to travel extensively through Europe, to relocate to the eastern seaboard… and she lives for the day her beloved 

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Review Invisible Women, Kylie Fox and Ruth Wykes
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Review WOMEN WHO KILL - Lindy Cameron & Ruth Wykes
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Blog Currently Reading - Women Who Kill, Lindy Cameron & Ruth Wykes
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 2 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Shelley Robertson

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Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 2 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 3 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Vikki Petraitis

Vikki Petraitis has been writing true crime since the early 1990s and has spent hundreds of hours interviewing police and even accompanying them on active duty to compile her fascinating collections of crime stories from behind the scenes.

Country of Origin
Blog Republished: The Frankston Murders: 25 years on
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Review THE FRANKSTON SERIAL KILLER - Vikki Petraitis
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Blog Currently Reading - The Frankston Serial Killer, Vikki Petraitis
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Blog Salvation by Vikki Petraitis - now in ebook
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Blog Currently Reading - The Phillip Island Murder, Vikki Petraitis and Paul Daley
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Review COPS - TRUE STORIES FROM AUSTRALIAN POLICE - Vikki Petraitis
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Blog Currently Reading - Cops, Vikki Petraitis
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Review OUTSIDE THE LAW 2 - Lindy Cameron (editor)
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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