Sulari Gentill
Sulari Gentill is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author of historical crime fiction and contemporary mysteries. Her most recent novel is The Mystery Writer.
BottomSulari Gentill is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author of historical crime fiction and contemporary mysteries. Her most recent novel is The Mystery Writer.
BottomPublished in English in Australia, the UK and the US, and in the translation in more than a dozen territories, Sulari Gentill is the author of the multi-award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, ten historical crime novels (thus far) chronicling the life and adventures of her 1930s Australian gentleman artist. The first book in this series was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the second won the Davitt Award. The remaining books have been variously shortlisted for the Davitt Award, the Ned Kelly Award, and the Australian Book Industry Association Awards.
In 2018, Gentill’s After She Wrote Him won the Ned Kelly Award and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award,
The Woman in the Library, published in 2022, was a USA Today Bestseller, shortlisted for an Edgar Award (US), an Amazon Editor’s Pick and won the CrimeFictionLover Award (UK). The Mystery Writer was released in March 2023 and Five Found Dead will be published in the US, UK and Australia in August 2025.
Sulari lives with her husband, Michael, their boys, Edmund and Atticus, two donkeys, a miniature horse, four dogs and cat, a on a small farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, where she grows French Black Truffles and writes.
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