Lucy Sussex
Lucy Sussex was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and lives in Australia. Currently she writes a book review column for the Sunday Age. Her award-writing writing has been published internationally, and in a variety of genres, including children’s fiction, literary criticism, horror and detective stories. It has been translated into Japanese, Polish, Czech and Russian. At present she is in the last stages of revising Mothers in Crime, the story of the mothers of crime and detective fiction.
While working as a researcher she solved the mystery of ‘Waif Wander’ (Mary Fortune), a woman who published 500 detective stories between 1865 and 1910. She has edited two collections of Fortune’s work, The Fortunes of Mary Fortune (Penguin, 1989) and The Detectives’ Album (Broken Silicon, 2003). A third collection, Three Murder Mysteries (Mulini Press, 2009) was launched at the second Crime and Justice Festival by Kerry Greenwood.
