Wendy James is Australia's queen of the domestic thriller. She is the author of nine novels, including An Accusation, The Golden Child--short-listed for the 2017 Ned Kelly Award--and the bestselling The Mistake. Her debut novel, Out of the Silence, won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for first crime novel and was short-listed for the Nita May Dobbie Award for women's writing. Wendy has a PhD from the University of New England, and she works as an editor, teacher, and researcher. She writes some of the sharpest, most topical domestic noir in the country.