Finally writing as herself, Deirdre Oliver is an Australian ex professional actress, sculptor, and psychiatric nurse who started writing suspense filled crime stories at aged 50. Her love affair with them started at ten when she pinched her mother's Agatha Christie library books.

Now her unique background in the theatre and psychiatry brings an edgy realism and black humour to her action packed thrillers.

Her Hannah Tree series epitomises this as her damaged heroine converts her passion for justice into a career while also working backstage in a revue theatre.

After her early writing career stalled due to illness she was only able to write short fiction. She won many awards but wasn't able to write novels until 2018.

She has now written fourteen including two novellas.

Her first four books are standalone thrillers but the rest belong to three separate series. Unlike many, if not most, Australian authors she doesn’t write about remote outback places. Since most Australians live in cities our large towns she writes about them.

The Hannah Tree: Private Detective series, and the new Georgia West Mysteries series (her first police procedural series) are set in inner urban Melbourne and the Harry Nichols: Investigative Journalist series is set in picturesque Marysville at the foot of the Australian alps.

With new books to add to each series and helped by her two Siamese cats, she writes every day and every now and then diverts to her first love, drawing. She is currently illustrating a humorous book about dogs and a picture book for her youngest grandson .