Hard Boiled: Michael Connelly, Bryan Brown, Dinuka McKenzie

Dinuka McKenzie is the author of the Detective Kate Miles crime series, The Torrent, Taken and Tipping Point, published in Australia and the UK. She is the winner of the 2020 HarperCollins Australia Banjo Prize. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Sisters in Crime - Davitt Awards, the Bad Sydney Crime - Danger Awards, and longlisted for the Richell Prize. Dinuka lives with her family in Southern Sydney on Dharawal country. She Lied First, a standalone psychological suspense, is her fourth novel.

Ron Serdiuk is an old Bookseller. After starting out at Sydney's Galaxy Bookshop, he worked for HarperCollins Publishers, the National Gallery Bookshop in Canberra - then opened Brisbane's Pulp Fiction Booksellers, specialising in fantasy, science fiction, crime and mystery – which he did for thirty years. He now reads strictly for pleasure.