Created by Tara Moss
A new series, well-received, following the adventures of feisty Australian war-time reporter (and later private detective) BILLIE WALKER who returns home to Sydney after the war, mourning the disappearance and possible death of her husband Jack Rake somewhere in Europe. Turfed out of her job now that “the men are back,” she takes over her late father’s detective agency.
And through it all, she has to navigate the stormy waters of a lopsided romantic triangle, torn between her assistant Sam (who looks “passingly like Alan Ladd) and Sydney detective Hank Cooper.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
It’s a wonder Canadian/Australian Tara Moss ever found time to write over a dozen books (including 2014’s critically acclaimed non-fiction work The Fictional Woman). An experienced journalist, television and radio producer, documentary host and interviewer, Moss has hosted the Australian true crime series Tough Nuts, Tara Moss Investigates, Tara in Conversation, The Craft Of Writing and Cyberhate. An outspoken advocate for the rights of women, children and people with disabilities, Moss has been garnered a slew of rewards and honours for her humanitarian work around the world, and her seemingly endless research has seen her tour the FBI Academy at Quantico, spend time in squad cars, morgues, prisons, the Hare Psychopathy Lab, the Supreme Court and criminology conferences, take polygraph tests, shoot weapons, conduct surveillance, pass the Firearms Training Simulator (FATSII) with the LAPD, pull 4.2 G’s doing loops over the Sydney Opera House flying with the RAAF, and acquire her CAMS race driver licence. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney, and has earned her private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy. She currently resides with her family in Vancouver, BC. She probably swims to Nanaimo and back every morning.
UNDER OATH
- “The heroine of this period detective series has glamour and gumption… If you devoured all of Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, you’ll probably have fun following Moss’ gutsy and likeable female detective through noir-like plots and an immersive historical setting.”
— Sydney Morning Herald
NOVELS
- The War Widow (2020) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- The Ghosts of Paris (2022) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- The Italian Secret (2025) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- They Come From Lands Down Under
Eyes at Work in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
