Australian Crime Fiction Database

Melbourne born author Geoff McGeachin has spent much of his life shooting pictures for advertising, travel, theatre and feature films. His work has taken him all over the world including stints living in Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong. He is now based in Sydney where he teaches photography and writes.

His first novel, FAT, FIFTY & F***ED! won the inaugural Australian Popular Fiction Competition and was published by Penguin in August 2004. Described by the Sunday Tasmanian as "one of the most exhilarating debut novels in many moons...wildly imaginative, irreverent, bitingly funny, beautifully paced and populated by the sort of characters we'd all love to know", it continues to entertain and amuse Australian and international readers.

Geoff followed this up with the hilarious adventure thriller D-E-D DEAD! which introduced Alby Murdoch - Australian secret agent and international photographer - a man with a taste for good coffee, fine food and interesting women and described by the Sunday Age as "a genuine action hero, with a truly Australian irreverence". D-E-D DEAD! published by Penguin/Viking and nominated for a Ned Kelly Award in 2006 was followed in 2007 by SENSITIVE NEW AGE SPY, also nominated for a Ned Kelly Award and described by the Sunday Tasmanian as “cheekier than a runway full of g-string models”.

D-E-D Dead! : In D-E-D Dead!, Geoffrey McGeachin's riotous new adventure thriller, Alby Murdoch - international photographer and Australian special agent - ducks bullets and bombs from Bondi to Bali and back as he attempts to unravel a lethal web of high-level dodgy dealings...

From the moment Alby drops his gun on a St Kilda tram he knows he's in for a bad day. Then his partner Harry is gunned down in a Double Bay coffee shop. By lunchtime Alby realises someone wants him dead - and they want him dead now.

All Alby wants is some pasta, a good bottle of wine and to know more about the mysterious Grace Goodluck...long dark hair, legs up to there, and piercing slate-grey eyes...sniper's eyes. But he also has to figure out who shot Harry and who wants him dead. And why.

Unfortunately for Alby, the answer lies over the razor wire and past the anti-personnel mines protecting Bitter Springs, a top-secret US military facility deep in the central Australian desert. Now that can really ruin your day...

Fat, Fifty and Fed (2004)*	Sensitive New Age Spy (2007)
D.E.D. Dead (2005)	Dead and Kicking (2009)