Kate Kyriacou is the Brisbane Courier-Mail‘s chief crime reporter. She has won awards, both at a state and national level, for her work as a crime writer.

Emily Maguire is an author and social commentator whose latest book, An Isolated Incident, was published in 2016. She is also the author of the novels Taming the Beast, an international bestseller and finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Kathleen Mitchell Award, The Gospel According to Luke, Smoke in the Room, and Fishing for Tigers. Her articles and essays on sex, religion and culture have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Big Issue and the Griffith Review. 

Mark Tedeschi AM QC is the Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales and has prosecuted many of the most significant and high-profile trials in Australia. He is the author of two true crime books, Eugenia: A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage and Kidnapped: The Crime that Shocked the Nation. Eugenia was shortlisted in 2013 as a finalist in the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Awards. Mark’s next true crime book, Murder at Myall Creek, will be published later this year.

Dr Anastasia Dukova is a policing historian specialising in the history of municipal policing, with a primary focus on Ireland, colonial Australia and Canada. Her recent monograph, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan later this year. 

 Anastasia is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University Centre for Social and Cultural Research.