Kel Robertson is an Australian novelist who was born in the 1950s on the south coast of New South Wales. His novel ''Smoke & Mirrors'' shared the 2009

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for Best Novel, with ''Deep Water'' by

Peter Corris Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-w ...

. Robertson lived in Sydney and various New South Wales country towns before entering high school in Bathurst. He has studied at a number of tertiary institutions. He resides in Canberra. He is the author of four novels featuring the Chinese-Australian Federal Police investigator, Brad Chen, two bureaucratic black comedies under the pen name A C Bland, and a futuristic crime novel under the pen name Belle Currer.

Novels

* ''Dead Set'' (2006)(2024): Brad Chen 1 * ''

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'' (2008): Brad Chen 2 * ''Rip Off'' (2011): Brad Chen 3 * '' The Final Trials of Alan Mewling'' (2016): the first Alan Mewling novel * '' The Earlier Trials of Alan Mewling'' (2019): the second Alan Mewling novel * ''Dare to Think'' (2019): a dystopian crime novel featuring the Cornwall Police Inspector, Melissa Raeburn * ''Best Served Cold''(2023): Brad Chen 4

Awards

* 2006 shortlisted

Ned Kelly Awards The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward ...

— Best First Novel for ''Dead Set'' * 2009 winner

— Best Novel for ''Smoke and Mirrors'' * 2009 winner ACT Writers Centre's Literary Awards — Fiction for ''Smoke and Mirrors'' * 2009 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Writing for ''Smoke and Mirrors''

References

Living people Australian male novelists Ned Kelly Award winners Australian crime writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-writer-stub