Yvonne Walus

Murder Mystery Books | Yvonne Walus - crime fiction

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My heritage is inter-continental. The first twelve years of my life in communist Poland taught me never to trust newspapers, how to play the game within the system, to value uniformity, and to ride in public transport squashed between so many people that my feet didn’t touch the ground. The next sixteen years in South Africa’s apartheid taught me never to trust newspapers, how to play the game within the system, to value diversity, and to drive the car fifty metres down the driveway to my mail box. New Zealand is a fantastic country to live in - consequently, I’ve lived here longer than anywhere else, and I plan on not emigrating ever again.

 

Crime fiction is my passion. My childhood hero was, predictably, Hercule Poirot. I've changed my mind several times since, and for a time I was totally into Harlan Coben's super-rich super-able Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood), but my current favourite is Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch… I mean, Sherlock Holmes.

 

Professional stuff: I'm a full member of Crime Writers' Association (CWA UK) and Romance Writers of New Zealand (RWNZ).

• Read my author interview about writing what I don't know.

• My most bizarre interaction with a reader on Crime Watch.

• Eating Mopane Worms.