About the author

Award-winning journalist and The Weekly’s former Associate Editor Caroline Overington, 48, is also a seasoned author and has written nine page-turning crime thrillers. Caroline grew up in Melton, Victoria, “one of three kids in a weatherboard house on the railway track. It was hot, flat, dry, and in many ways perfect: we scrambled over creek beds and shot rabbits and it seems like a different time.” At 13 Caroline went for work experience at the Melton

Mail Express and found her passion “being a busy body, asking questions”. She says that the reason psychological thrillers are so popular is “Escape.

It’s like getting on a super-fast train, whooosh, you’re away!”