Meet Sandi
Sandi Wallace grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia among a book-loving family. At around the age of six, her life-long addiction to crime fiction set in, thanks to her favourite children’s mystery and adventure story authors. And Sandi’s dream to be a crime writer began.
Sandi’s “writer’s apprenticeship” included gathering fodder for her stories from stints as banker, paralegal, cabinetmaker, office manager, executive assistant, personal trainer, journalist… and life. She nearly joined Victoria Police. Instead, chased her writing dream.
Sandi’s debut rural thriller TELL ME WHY (2014) (winner of Davitt Award Readers’ Choice and shortlisted for Davitt’s Best Debut 2015) is the first book to star city journalist Georgie Harvey and country cop John Franklin. It is followed by DEAD AGAIN (2017), INTO THE FOG (2018) and BLACK CLOUD (2020). Her latest release is tense, twisty psychological thriller WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW (2025).
Sandi’s short crime fiction collections ON THE JOB (2017) and MURDER IN THE MIDST (2020) include some of her award-winning stories. And her chapter on “Carving out your writer’s niche” is in the anthology WRITING THE DREAM (2016).
Sandi lives with her husband (AKA her muse) on Millowl / Phillip Island off the southern coast of Victoria, Australia. She enjoys the company of great people and her furry family, taking country and coastal walks and drives, gardening, canoeing, fishing and relaxing. Her other loves are home, good crime reads and shows, black coffee, neat whisky and red wine… Connect with Sandi and be the first to hear her book news by joining her on her socials.
