Autor/-in: Lainie Anderson

Lainie Anderson OAM has worked with Adelaide's Sunday Mail. , Melbourne's Herald Sun. and London's The Times. After being awarded a Churchill Fellowship, Lainie published her debut novel Long Flight Home. in 2019. In 2024, Lainie completed a PhD on Kate Cocks - the inspiration behind the Petticoat Police Mysteries. Lainie is a board member of the History Trust of South Australia, the vice-president of the History Council of South Australia and sits on the SA selection committee for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. She was SA's 2023 Emerging Historian of the Year and in 2026 was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to community history. Murder on North Terrace. is the second novel in the Petticoat Police Mystery series, following The Death of Dora Black. , which was longlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction and the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. Lainie lives in Adelaide with her husband Max.