Lindsay Simpson

Dr Lindsay Simpson is the author and co-author of nine books including the bestselling Brothers in Arms, co-authored with Sandra Harvey, the subject of a the television mini-series Bikie Wars. Her 2014 book Where is Daniel? written with parents Bruce and Denise Morcombe dealt with the disappearance of their son Daniel and the subsequent police investigation. Her novel The Curer of Souls was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick prize in 2007. That year, she also won with Sandra the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Awards for her contribution to crime writing. Lindsay was an investigative journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald from 1983 to 1995. She spent 13 years as an academic as the inaugural Head of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Tasmania and headed the multimedia journalism degree at James Cook University. She started postgraduate writing degree programs at both universities. She now writes fulltime and lives in the Whitsundays with her husband Grant. They have their own tourism business running two sailing boats, Providence V and MiLady around the islands.