Emma Viskic

Emma Viskic is the author of the critically acclaimed RESURRECTION BAY series featuring profoundly deaf investigator, Caleb Zelic. The first novel in the series, RESURRECTION BAY, took the crime fiction world by storm in 2015, winning the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut and an unprecedented three Davitt Awards. It was shortlisted for the UK's prestigious Gold Dagger and New Blood Awards and was voted one of the decade's best novels by Crime Time Magazine. The sequels garnered a further two Davitt Awards, and have been nominated for multiple international awards such as the Dublin Literary Award, the Ned Kelly Award, and the USA's Barry Award.

Before becoming a novelist, Emma was a classical clarinet player, with a career that ranged from performing with opera greats Jose Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, to playing at an engagement party that ended in a brawl. She lives in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia and is currently working on a novel inspired by her family's brush with a violent episode in Australia's history.