Biography gabrielle lord

Life.

Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney. Lord began writing fiction while working for the Commonwealth Employment Service. In she won a grant from the Literature Board to finish her first novel, but a devastating reader's report caused her to abandon that novel and write another in just three weeks. That novel, Fortress , was published in , initiating Lord's series of thriller-mystery novels.

Most of Lord's novels are set in contemporary Australia and deal with the abuse of children and the harm inflicted by families. To achieve authenticity in these novels, Lord has conducted extensive research into crime investigation techniques, attracting a loyal group of readers to her tightly-plotted and fast-paced narratives.

Gabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.

Several of Lord's novels have been produced as films, and when the film rights to her novel Salt were sold, she was free to write full-time. She has since written for film and television and co-authored an account of her convent education. One cold case. Two amateur investigators. Only 48 hours to solve the crime. Jazz's best friend Anika has been kidnapped!

She can't call the cops, so Jazz forges a shaky truce with her brilliant nemesis, Phoenix, to help her investigate. Together, they uncover clues and crime scene evidence. Sneaking into a forensic lab, they test DNA, fingerprints and more, to piece the clues together. The results are shocking. Could it really lead to a twenty-year-old murder case?