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Gabrielle Lord
Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney in 1946. After studying at Armidale Univeristy she worked variously as a msaleswoman, teacher and fruitpicker, and spent nine years with the Commonwealth Employment Service as an employment officer. Her first novel Fortress has been made into a feature film starring Rachel Ward and Whipping Boy has been made into a telemovie featuring Sigrid Thornton. Her more recent books have been the Gemma Lincoln series, and a series featuring forensic scientist Jack McCain psychological thrillers filled with detail and sharp character description. Her stories and articles have appeared widely in the national press and been published in anthologies. She won the 2002 Ned Kelly Award with Death Delights for best crime novel and was a joint winner of the 2003 Davitt crime fiction prize for Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing.

The Gemma Lincoln series
Gemma Lincoln is a Sydney private investigator specialising in insurance traces. Her specialty spreads a lot more widely as she is called in to investigate a range of harrowing cases.

Feeding The Demons (1999) ***Buy*** Spiking The Girl (2004) ***Buy***
 
 
The Jack McCann series
Jack McCann is a forensic scientist.
 
 
 
 
Stand-Alone Novels
Fortress (1980) ***Buy***
Whipping Boy (1992) ***Buy***
Tooth and Claw (1983) ***Buy*** Bones (1995)
Jumbo (1986) ***Buy*** The Sharp End (1998) My Review
Salt (1990) ***Buy***  
 
 
 
 
 
From the Dustjacket
 
Feeding The Demons : Gemma and Kit are two daughters of a father convicted of their mother's murder. The women have differing opinions about the guilt of their father, and his release from jail causes conflict between them, while at the same time a series of gruesome events involving slashed women's clothing escalates into serial murders. What have these events to do with Gemma and Kit's past secrets? And what of their father? This book is a great read - absorbing, intriguing and teasing the reader. It will please Lord fans but is also a great one to start with for crime readers who have not yet been introduced to the talents of Sydney-born Lord.
 
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing : Gemma Lincoln, who last featured in Feeding the Demons, is trying to discover who has been raping and murdering street girls from Kings Cross. Parallel cases follow the suspicious death of a high profile Sydney businessman and philanthropist, and an utterly ruthless drug dealer whose hobby is maintaining a small zoo of poisonous snakes.
 
In addition to these enquiries, Gemma has to contend with sabotage from within her own small organisation and pangs of jealousy over boyfriend Steve, whose own undercover work involves getting up close and personal with an extremely beautiful society woman. How much is Steve acting a role and how much is he really involved with the woman? Always haunted by the insecurities of her past, Gemma struggles to pull her life together in increasingly sinister circumstances.
 
As always, Lord combines her up-to the-minute forensic knowledge with storytelling skills, which keep the reader glued to the page.
 
Death Delights : Forensic scientist Jack McCann, an ex-crime scene detective, is separated from his difficult wife and living with his 17-year-old son, Greg. He is also trying to track down his teenage daughter, Jacinta, who ran away two years ago - an event that stirred memories of an earlier tragedy, the abduction of his little sister Rosie from outside the family home in 1975.
 
Reluctantly, Jack agrees to help a detective friend investigate a series of grisly pedophile murders. Then an anonymous telephone tip-off about Jacinta's whereabouts leads Jack into an intimate relationship with an enigmatic woman, a relationship that threatens not only to compromise the entire investigation, but also to bring him appallingly close to the mutilator murderer.
 
As Jack uncovers the extraordinary link between the old and new crimes, he is forced to confront the destructive patterns within his own family. But before he can fully unravel the mystery, he unwittingly exposes both himself and his son to deadly danger.
 

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