Dr Wendy James is the author of eight books including The Lost Girls and Out of the Silence, which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime fiction and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie Award for women's writing. 

The Lost Girls which is set in Newcastle has been chosen to be adapted into a Hollywood film.

Wendy has lived in Cooks Hill for ten years with her husband and two of their four children. Wendy is an avid reader and regular visitor to Newcastle Libraries. 

Wendy writes some of the best and most contemporary domestic noir novels in Australia.

Hosted by Michael Blaxland. 

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