Alix Bosco
| Alix Bosco | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Period | 2009 - present |
| Genres | Crime, Mystery |
Alix Bosco is a crime fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand.
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[edit] Life
'Alix Bosco is the pseudonym of New Zealand writer Greg McGee, as revealed in the Sunday Star Times on August 14th, 2011[1]. McGee writes in a variety of other media,[2] and therefore wanted to keep his crime-writing persona separate.
[edit] Writing
In August 2009 Alix Bosco's first thriller novel, Cut & Run, was published in New Zealand by Penguin Books and won the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2010.[3] The novel is the first in a planned series set in Auckland and starring legal researcher Anna Markunas.[4] The second novel Slaughter Falls is a finalist in the 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award. [5]
[edit] Reviews
"Oh, it was such fun playing spot-the-Kiwi-celeb in this cracking thriller from Alix Bosco. A rugby star is found dead, murdered while making love to a beautiful woman. Mikky St Clair is a gorgeous media tart, famous for being famous and for her conquests. Sound like anyone you might have seen in the social pages?" Kerre Woodham, Paper Plus Book Talk[6]
"An edgy and fast paced thriller... I look forward to more from Bosco." Joanne Taylor, Latitude magazine
"Bosco creates an enjoyable page-turner not only through the ‘did Fifita really do it?’ plotline hook, kicked up a notch when subsequent discoveries put Markunas in danger, but through her creation of characters with some nice depth and complexity." Craig Sisterson, NZLawyer magazine [7]
"This bleak, topical novel is a substantial achievement and a welcome addition to the slim canon of New Zealand crime fiction" Paul Thomas, New Zealand Herald
[edit] References
- ^ Knight, Kim (14 August 2011). "Novelist's killer finally confesses". The Sunday Star-Times. http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/5436176/Novelists-killer-finally-confesses. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- ^ Penguin Books NZ official release
- ^ [1]
- ^ New Zealand Book Council website
- ^ [2]
- ^ Paper Plus Book Talk website
- ^ Reprint of NZLawyer review on Crime Watch website
