About Lee

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Lee is the author of four crime novels with romantic elements published with Allen and Unwin.

Lee’s best-selling Snowy Mountains series Charlotte Pass, Crackenback and Dead Horse Gap were published in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. Charlotte Pass won the Australian Romance Readers Association award for Favourite Romantic Suspense in 2020. Lee’s latest crime novel Glenrock, published in 2024, is set in Lee’s hometown of Newcastle.

Prior to her shift into crime writing, Lee wrote six romantic suspense novels published with Harlequin Australia’s Escape Publishing.

Lee loves connecting with her readers and has appeared on a panel at the Newcastle Writer’s Festival, Lake Macquarie Libraries Write Here! Festival, and the Mount Beauty Writer’s Festival. Lee has been a guest speaker at major fundraisers for the Friends of Newcastle University and the Mark Hughes Brain Cancer Foundation.

Lee has two grown children and lives in Newcastle with her husband and her Irish Wheaten Terrier, Honey.