Shelley Burr

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 (2022), was a Top Five bestseller, won the CWA Debut Dagger Award in 2019, ABIA's 2023 Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the 2023 Ned Kelly Award for best debut crime fiction. WAKE was also shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards Debut Novel Award. Her highly anticipated second novel, RIPPER (2023), was a Top Ten bestseller and debuted at number-one in Australian fiction. Shelley's next book will be the third novel in the Lane Holland series and will publish in May 2025.