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Simpson and Cooke

Lindsay Simpson worked as an investigative journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald for 12 years. Her previous books include My Husband, My Killer (co-written with Sandra Harvey) and Brothers in Arms. She currently heads the journalism program at James Cook University.

Jennifer Cooke is a multi-award winning journalist who has spent more than 30 years writing for newspapers in Australia, England and Hong Kong. Her first book, Cannibals, Cows & the CJD Catastrophe, won the 1999 Eureka Science Book Prize for popular science.

A former medical, crime and legal reporter on the Sydney Morning Herald, from which she is currently on extended leave, she has covered many controversial court cases.

Some of them were included in Done Like a Dinner, a true-crime book co-authored with Sandra Harvey about crimes and crooks linked to restaurants. She lives near Washington, DC.