Miles Off Course
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“… continues the sparkling crime series that began with A Few Right Thinking Men... There’s an Evelyn-Waugh-meets-Agatha-Christie feel about this series, though it perhaps bears closer comparison to the celebrated contemporary author of period crime, the Russian Boris Akunin”—THE AGE
“A historical crime series featuring a wiley detective makes us think of Miss Marple or Inspector Poirot...”
—ABC RADIO NATIONAL’S THE BOOK SHOW
“… deserves to be both read and remembered”
—AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
“Fans of classic crime fiction will also be pleased to learn that, with her amateur detective Rowland Sinclair, she has brought back the gentleman sleuth but with a difference: he’s a larrikin Lord Peter Wimsey, with a penchant for living la vie de boheme.”—SUN HERALD
“… for those who love a good murder mystery to solve”
—CENTRAL COAST ADVOCATE
“This is a very entertaining and lovely book… People who love Kerry Greenwood’s books featuring Phryne Fisher, the very wealthy flapper in 1928 in Melbourne, well, Rowland is your equivalent and these books are very reminiscent… that same attention to the history… that same attention to the luxury and having a central character who has money and is able to go anywhere in the world as a consequence… and we’re in these extraordinary places… I was interested in the colour, movement, history, the sense of Sydney in the 1930s, the sense of place… that is what I loved…”—ABC RADIO
ABOUT SULARI GENTILL
Sulari set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating in law, and later abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. When the mood takes her, she paints, although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write. She grows French Black Truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW, which she shares with her young family and several animals (the farm not the truffles). Sulari was shortlisted for Best First Book in South East Asia and Pacific for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011. She was recently offered a Varuna Fellowship. She was commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ 2008 Jim Hamilton Award, longlisted for the Hachette/Queensland Writers’ Centre Australian Manuscript Development Program for fiction writers and shortlisted for the 2008 New Holland Publishers and NSW Writers’ Centre Genre Fiction Award. Sulari is the author of A Few Right Thinking Men and A Decline in Prophets (the first two books in the Rowland Sinclair Series). She also writes Young Adult fiction. Chasing Odysseus, the first book in the HERO trilogy, was released in early 2011.