Lian Tanner has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, hunting for a Japanese soldier left over from the Second World War. Nowadays she lives by the beach in southern Tasmania with a large fluffy tomcat called Harry-le-beau.

A Clue for Clara has won the 2021 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for Best Children's Crime Novel by an Australian woman! Hooray for Clara! We are squawking with delight!