Finally writing as herself, Deirdre Oliver is an Australian ex professional actress, sculptor, and psychiatric nurse who started writing suspense filled crime stories at aged 50. Her love affair with them started at ten when she pinched her mother's Agatha Christie library books.

Now her unique background in the theatre and psychiatry brings an edgy realism and black humour to her action packed thrillers.

Her Hannah Tree series epitomises this as her damaged heroine converts her passion for justice into a career.

After her early writing career stalled due to illness she was only able to write short fiction. She won many awards but wasn't able to write novels until 2018.

She has now written twelve with another two in progress.

Her first four books are standalone thrillers but her latest six belong to two separate series.

The Hannah Tree: Private Detective series, set in inner urban Melbourne and the Harry Nichols: Investigative Journalist series set in picturesque Marysville at the foot of the Australian alps.

Deirdre made a conscious decision to self publish because resuming writing at seventy-five in 2018, meant there simply wasn't time to pursue publishers. She just has too much time to make up. But she approaches each book as professionally as she did with her early publisher in 2000.

It's been a long journey but with her sense of humour and the help of her two siamese cats she keeps on writing. She is currently writing the fifth Hannah Tree book, a Regency Romance, and the third in an unreleased police procedural series called PC Georgia West.