Kate Evans is a broadcaster on ABC RN’s Books and Arts & Books Plus programs. She has a PhD in history and a lot of books – including an entire bookcase of crime fiction.

Rachel Franks holds a PhD in Australian crime fiction and her research on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and information science has been presented at numerous conferences. An award-winning writer, her work can be …

Graeme Blundell is an actor, director, producer and writer. He is the national television critic and crime reviewer for The Australian, and presents movies on Foxtel’s Fox Classics. His memoir, The Naked Truth, A Life in Parts was published to acclaim …

Bob Bottom as journalist, author and source did more than anyone else to alert Australians to organised crime in the 1970s and 1980s. He was responsible for many government royal commissions and other inquiries. He …

Jesuit priest Fr Frank Brennan has been a long-time advocate for human rights and social justice in Australia. He is chief executive officer of Catholic Social Services Australia, the Catholic Church’s peak body for social services, and an adjunct professor …

Nerida Campbell is a curator at Sydney Living Museums. She has over 15 years’ experience in the interpretation of criminal histories and is preparing the exhibition Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties for the Justice & Police Museum.

Lee Child is the creator of Jack Reacher, an American ex-military policeman turned roaming vigilante. His first novel was Killing Floor, which he wrote after being sacked from his job at Granada Television in England. …

Beverley Cousins has twenty years’ experience of London publishing, specializing in crime and thrillers. She is now Commercial Fiction Publisher at Penguin Random House Australia. Authors she has published include Colin Dexter, Minette Walters, Nicci …

Yoni Bashan wins awards writing about crime for the Sunday Telegraph. In 2016 he published the non-fiction book, The Squad, which centres on the NSW Police Force’s Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad.

Matthew Benns is editor-at-large at The Daily Telegraph. He’s spent his career exposing some of the biggest conmen – and women – in the world. He has worked for leading newspapers in London and Sydney, and written bestselling …