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, which published the first books by Peter Robb (''Midnight in Sicily''),

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. The company stopped publishing new titles in 2005. Duffy presented

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'' went on to rate better than its source of inspiration. Duffy has written four true crime books and the Sydney crime novels ''The Tower'', ''The Simple Death'' and ''Drive By''. He is now writing the Bella Greaves series of crime novels set in the Blue Mountains.Author Website
/ref> The first is ''The Problem with Murder''.

Books

*''Crossing the Blue Mountains: journeys through two centuries'' editor (1996), history *''The Tower'' (2009), crime fiction *''The Simple Death'' (2011), crime fiction *''Call Me Cruel: A Story about Murder and the Dangerous Power of Lies'' (2012), true crime *''Bad: The True Story of the Perish Brothers and Australia's Biggest Ever Murder Investigation'' (2012), true crime *''Drive By'' (2013), crime fiction *''Sydney Noir: The golden years'' co-authored with Nick Hordern, 2017 *''World War Noir: Sydney's unpatriotic war'', co-authored with Nick Hordern, 2019 *''The Problem with Murder'' (2021), crime fiction *''The Strange Death of Paul Ruel'' (2022), crime fiction *''Tall Stories'', (2023), Blue Mountains local history

References

Living people Australian journalists Australian male journalists Australian non-fiction crime writers 21st-century Australian novelists Year of birth missing (living people) {{australia-writer-stub