Tony BerryTony Berry is a lifelong career journalist who has worked on national magazines and daily newspapers in his native Britain and in Australia, where he has made his home for several decades. He has written four previous crime fiction books featuring digraced secret service agent Bromo Perkins, and a family history based on numerous research trips exploring the places where his ancestors once lived. His first two novels, Done Deal and Washed Up, were short-listed for the New South Wales Genre Fiction Award and Washed Up also secured him a mentorship with the Australian Society of Authors. In 2017 he was one of eight writers chosen worldwide for the inaugural crime fiction residency at the Banff Centre for Excellence in Canada. As an accredited professional editor in Australia and the UK Tony also edits fiction and non-fiction in a wide range of genres. For recreation he battles the curse of ageing as he tries to maintain his status as an elite masters' athlete at national and international level over distances from 3000 metres to the marathon. Read More Read Less