Andrea Barton

Andrea Barton, award-winning author and fiction editor, writes the Jade Riley Mystery Series, starting with The Godfather of Dance and A Killer Among Friends. Her latest release is Book 5, The Desert Thief. She runs Brightside Story Studio and is Vice President of Mansfield Readers & Writers.

Her other writing credits include The Winding Narrative blog, several short stories, two picture books and nine stage productions about contemporary social issues. She has co-authored and edited two anthologies about expatriate life.

An electrical engineer turned career consultant, Andrea spent 12 years enjoying the exhilaration and dislocation of life as an expat in Nigeria, USA, and Qatar with her husband and two children. She has now repatriated to Australia, where she commutes between Melbourne and Mansfield. Along the way, she developed a passion for ballroom and Latin dance, helped to build a school, got bogged in both the Qatari and Australian deserts, and had an accidental hallucinogenic experience in Peru.

Fun fact: she holds her A.Mus.A. in violin, which has inspired a life-long love of music.