Gabrielle Lord
Gabrielle Lord’s first novel, Fortress, was translated into six languages and made into a successful film. Since then she has published a number of best-selling novels, including Lethal Factor, Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing, Death Delights, Feeding the Demons, The Sharp End, Whipping Boy, Tooth and Claw and Jumbo. She has adapted several of her novels for the screen. Death Delights won the Best Novel category of the 2002 Ned Kelly Awards and Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing was the 2003 joint winner of the Davitt Crime Fiction Award. Spiking the Girl has been chosen as an Australian Womens’ Weekly Great Read.
One of the country’s best crime writers
—Matt Condon, Sun-Herald
Gabrielle Lord is writing increasingly assured and complex books … None of her contemporaries has more thoroughly and seriously explored the causalities of a prosperous time.
—Peter Pierce, Sydney Morning Herald
Lord deserved a wide, discerning audience.
—Peter Pierce, Bulletin
Spiking the Girl
We skip through her novels with no need to suspend disbelief, enjoying the intricacies of her plotting and trying to outguess her. Not possible your honour. Lord’s beautifully constructed parallel stories never leak.
—Weekend Australian, 7–8 August 2004
In this superbly written psychological thriller, Gabrielle Lord takes us on a on the dark side.
—Australian Women’s Weekly great read, August 2004
Extract in Woman’s Day
Lethal Factor
Throughout the book, Lord teases big meanings out of threatening spores, deadly representations of Christ and a father’s concern for his daughter. Altogether, a great little read
—The Bulletin, 7 October 2003
Lord has shown her versatility and strength as a writer by creating totally believable characters of either sex.
—Good Reading Magazine 1 January 2004
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
‘The First Lady of Crime’ is here for the long haul, writing with a freedom that delights in risks and what may come of them
—The Bulletin, 23 July 2002
Lord has never plotted more intricately or sure footedly.
—The Bulletin, 23 July 2002