Kim HuntKim completed a Master of Letters at the University of Sydney and was a runner up in the 2023 Sisters in Crime USA Pride Awards, recognizing her as an Emerging LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Writer.Her writing is informed by her time as a band roadie, dj, tier, horticulturalist and women's refuge worker. Countless automotive projects litter her past and permeate her present.She writes about the sort of kick-ass female protagonists you rarely see in crime fiction. Working class heroes. Fierce femmes. Gender outlaws and precious misfits. Readers are propelled through gritty Antipodean road trips, urban cityscapes and endless tracts of coastal forest: a body dumpers paradise.The Cal Nyx Mystery Thriller series began in 2020 with The Beautiful Dead, followed by The Quarry (2023) and The Freezer (2024).The Ngaio Marsh Awards recognized The Beautiful Dead when it was shortlisted for Best First Novel in 2021 with The Quarry being longlisted in 2024.A standalone crime novel set in New Zealand, The Corrector, is in pre-publication.Kim's current works-in-progress are a fourth Cal Nyx mystery thriller and a follow-up to The Corrector.Kim currently lives and writes in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Read More Read Less