Dianne McInnes

Dr Dianne McInnes — no, not a medical doctor, a criminologist — has had 127 books published by various publishers including a 4-volume Papua New Guinea (PNG) Encyclopaedia, children’s books, teenage novels, biographies, histories, a 2-volume PNG Pictorial History and two true crime novels: Five Drops of Blood, Sex Trafficking—The Dark Side of the Australian Sex Industry. Her professional focus was non-fiction, adult vocational education in Australia and the school curriculum in PNG. She was the designer and co-editor of Air Niugini’s inflight magazine, Paradise for eight years, and has written scripts for ABC and NBC radio as well as EMTV television. Dianne lived for many years on the Gold Coast and in Papua New Guinea. Now, she lives in Narooma on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. This is her first novel featuring Dr Angelique Worthington.