Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches and her grandparents' property in Glenrowan, and on the road between the two. When not writing, Shelley is working to establish a small permaculture farm and is studying sustainable agriculture at the University of New England. Her debut novel, WAKE, was a Top Five bestseller, won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award in 2019, the Australian Book Industry's 2023 Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Australian Crime Writers Association's 2023 Ned Kelly Award for best debut crime fiction. WAKE was also shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards Debut Novel Award. Her second novel, RIPPER, went straight to Number One on the Australian Fiction Bestseller list and was shortlisted for both the Sydney Crime Writers Festival's 2024 Danger Awards and the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards for Best Crime Fiction. VANISH is Shelley's third book in the Lane Holland series and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel.