New release from former journalist
Former Wimmera journalist and founder of the Wimmera’s first public-relations firm Melissa Pouliot released her sixth crime novel yesterday.
Pouliot’s fiction Search for Sky is set in the stark landscape of the Australian outback and a police system operating in the mid 1990s. It is also her fourth instalment of a ‘Rhiannon series’, picking up the story of character detective Rhiannon Mcvee.
Pouliot’s book release represents a return to writing fiction after Kings Cross detectives found her missing cousin Ursula in 2017 after a 30-year search.
Pouliot, now based in Merimbula, had previously released a book a year in an effort to keep public scrutiny on Ursula’s 1987 disappearance.
“I’m thrilled to get back into my fiction-writing after a break,” she said.
“It has been a fairly intense few years for everyone that I know.
“For me, discovering what happened to Ursula and going through the coronial process, bushfires, COVID and moving house created the perfect storm.
“Every time I tried to pick up this book, which I started in 2017, the words wouldn’t come. It’s an age-old excuse for writers, but life definitely got in the way.”