Karen ThurechtDr Karen Thurecht has a PhD in medical anthropology and specialised in Indigenous Health and Aged Care. Starting her career traipsing through the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the tropics of Australia, Karen has published articles in professional jurnals in relation to both Indigenous Health and Aged Care and has previously published two non-fiction books - "Good Girls Keep Their Legs Together" (a novel based on her PhD research into the Social Barriers to Pap Smear Screening for Cervical Cancer) and "Story and Belief" (which explores the ways in which our cultural stories frame and shape our lives).Karen Thurecht is the author of the "Dr Hamish Hart Mysteries" set in Southeast Queensland in the 1880s. The first book is set at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum on Stradbroke Island, the second, on the Sugarcane Fields south of Brisbane, with the third in Frogs Hollow, that notorious red-light district of 19th century Brisbane. Karen's fourth book travels to The Grand Hotel at Deepwater Point on the Gold Coast while her fifth book, kills off the Maryborough blacksmith in the first paragraph of "The Blacksmith's Widow." Karen has now finished her sixth book in the "Dr Hamish Hart Mysteries" - "The Body on Hamilton Reach" which has Hamish and Rita returning to the Brisbane waterfront of 1887.All Karen's books reflect her experience and interest in social history, the history of medicine, and themes of overcoming oppression. Although the actual murders are fiction, each book is based on accurate historical research on the people, places, and circumstances of that period in Queensland. Karen continues the "Dr Hamish Hart Mysteries" and has now finished book one in her new and exciting series, transporting you forward to the near future and introducing killer drones directed by AI in the "Dr Nova Corbin Series." Read More Read Less