Born in Melbourne, Australia, the allure of a career in tennis led me to make a tough decision; remain home and become a CPA (yeah, really) or see where my tennis takes me. Tough decision? Not likely. With 4-year scholarship in hand, I jetted off to America with delusions of grandeur.
Unfortunately, my tennis career was cut short by injury and lack of talent (emphasis on the latter). Consequently, it was time to put my hard-earned(?) Economics & Finance degree to some use. Thereby embarking upon a three-decade career in corporate America - airline & banking - before the writing bug took hold. Though you'll still find me teaching the odd tennis lesson, old habits ...
After visiting Poland (extended family) and Eastern Europe, the storyline for my first novel crystallized. Closure is a murder mystery set in 1980s Melbourne, but where the answers lie in WWII Europe.
Turn A Blind Eye is a thriller centered around the banking industry (of which I have some experience). Set, once again, in Melbourne - with twisty threads of misdeeds in Dublin and Rome. I completed the manuscript just as the Panama Papers scandal laid-bare the nefarious world of offshore banking, tax evasion and money laundering. I couldn't have asked for a better lead-in.
Something for Bebe, is a modern-day, Young Adult (and up) thriller that returns to some familiar locales (the former Yugoslavian states) visited earlier in Closure. Meet, Maddy, a feisty teenager who jets off to Europe in search of her mentor whom, she believes, has embarked on a killing spree. But what she discovers in the war-torn Balkans is far worse.
And then, something different, a collaborative effort with Australia's Jock Serong and Mark Smith. Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined is an anthology from twenty-one of Australia's finest writers who take a Paul Kelly classic and reimagine it in their own inimitable way. And because Volume 1 was so much fun, we (Mark and I) just couldn't say no to a Volume 2 - Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined.
Next up, we'll discover if the world is ready for Matt Latham - a sardonic expat Aussie foreign correspondent (and reluctant spy) who just can't stay out of trouble. Echo Publishing / Bonnier Books UK certainly think so as they will publish the first two books in my geopolitical/espionage thriller series.
Look for Shadow Lives July 30, 2024, followed by Best Left Buried in 2025.
Unfortunately, my tennis career was cut short by injury and lack of talent (emphasis on the latter). Consequently, it was time to put my hard-earned(?) Economics & Finance degree to some use. Thereby embarking upon a three-decade career in corporate America - airline & banking - before the writing bug took hold. Though you'll still find me teaching the odd tennis lesson, old habits ...
After visiting Poland (extended family) and Eastern Europe, the storyline for my first novel crystallized. Closure is a murder mystery set in 1980s Melbourne, but where the answers lie in WWII Europe.
Turn A Blind Eye is a thriller centered around the banking industry (of which I have some experience). Set, once again, in Melbourne - with twisty threads of misdeeds in Dublin and Rome. I completed the manuscript just as the Panama Papers scandal laid-bare the nefarious world of offshore banking, tax evasion and money laundering. I couldn't have asked for a better lead-in.
Something for Bebe, is a modern-day, Young Adult (and up) thriller that returns to some familiar locales (the former Yugoslavian states) visited earlier in Closure. Meet, Maddy, a feisty teenager who jets off to Europe in search of her mentor whom, she believes, has embarked on a killing spree. But what she discovers in the war-torn Balkans is far worse.
And then, something different, a collaborative effort with Australia's Jock Serong and Mark Smith. Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined is an anthology from twenty-one of Australia's finest writers who take a Paul Kelly classic and reimagine it in their own inimitable way. And because Volume 1 was so much fun, we (Mark and I) just couldn't say no to a Volume 2 - Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined.
Next up, we'll discover if the world is ready for Matt Latham - a sardonic expat Aussie foreign correspondent (and reluctant spy) who just can't stay out of trouble. Echo Publishing / Bonnier Books UK certainly think so as they will publish the first two books in my geopolitical/espionage thriller series.
Look for Shadow Lives July 30, 2024, followed by Best Left Buried in 2025.