Chasing Odysseus

About the Author

Published in English in Australia, the UK and the US, and in translation in more than a dozen territories, Sulari Gentill is the author of The Hero Trilogy and the multi-award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, ten historical crime novels (thus far) chronicling the life and adventures of her 1930s Australian gentleman artist. The first book in this series was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the second won the Davitt Award. The remaining books have been variously shortlisted for the Davitt Award, the Ned Kelly Award, and the Australian Book Industry Association Awards.

In 2018, Gentill’s After She Wrote Him won the Ned Kelly Award and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award, The Woman in the Library, published in 2022, was a USA Today Bestseller, nominated for an Edgar Award (US), an Amazon Editor’s Pick, a Goodreads Most Anticipated Read and won the CrimeFictionLover Award (UK). The Mystery Writer was released in March 2023, and was a LibraryReads pick for that month and selected as one of Bookbub's Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2024. It too was and Amazon Editor's Pick, and an Amazon Best Book of March. Five Found Dead, published in the US, UK and Australia in 2025, was also a LibraryReads pick, a KOBO Best Mystery and a BookBub Best Book of the Month.

Sulari lives with her husband, Michael, their boys, Edmund and Atticus, two donkeys, a miniature horse, four dogs and cat, a on a small farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, where she grows French Black Truffles and writes.