Published in English in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US, and in the translation in more than a dozen territories, Sulari Gentill is the author of the multi-award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, ten historical crime novels (thus far) chronicling the life and adventures of her 1930s Australian gentleman artist. The first book in this series was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the second, won the Davitt Award. The remaining books have been variously shortlisted for the Davitt Award, the Ned Kelly Award, and the Australian Book Industry Association Awards.
Sulari also wrote The Hero Trilogy, based on the myths and epics of the ancient world. The series has been the subject of number of papers and conferences on classical reception in contemporary readerships. Chasing Odysseus, the first book of the trilogy was commended in the FAW Jim Hamilton Award and is currently being adapted for the stage.
In 2018, Sulari Gentill’s After She Wrote Him won the Ned Kelly Award and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award. The Woman in the Library, published in 2022, was a USA Today Bestseller, nominated for an Edgar Award (US), an Amazon Editor’s Pick, a number 1 LibraryReads Pick, and won the CrimeFictionLover Award (UK). The Mystery Writer was released in 2024 and was selected as one of Bookbub’s Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2024, was an Amazon Editor’s Pick, a LibraryReads pick for March, and an Amazon Best Book of March. Five Found Dead will be published in the US, UK and Australia in August 2025.
Sulari lives with her husband, Michael, their boys, Edmund and Atticus, two donkeys, a miniature horse, four dogs and a cat, on a small farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, where she grows French Black Truffles and writes.