Lindsay Simpson

Lindsay Simpson is the author and co-author of eight books, five of which are in the true crime genre. I love the idea of Amazon as previously my books have mainly been available in Australia yet they should have a much wider appeal.
Brothers in Arms, the first book I co-authored with my best friend, Sandra Harvey is being shown as Bikie Wars, Brothers in Arms, a six-part mini series in Australia this year produced by Screentime, producers of the well known Australia miniseries, Underbelly. The book sold around 100,000 copies in Australia. It’s about a bikie massacre in Sydney involving the Comancheros and Bandidos and it happened on Father’s Day. Seven people were killed including a 14-year old girl. Brothers in Arms was the first book in Australia to tackle the creative nonfiction genre in reporting crime in a full length book.

Sandra and I went on to co-author two others books: My Husband My Killer about the murder of Megan Kalajzich in Sydney in 1986. Her husband, Andrew Kalajzich gets out of jail this year after serving a life time imprisonment for hiring a hitman to kill her while he slept next to her in their family home. This book also made it to the screen – a telemovie by Screentime. The Killer Next Door was the last book in which we collaborated. It is the story of a serial killer, a pie salesman who pleaded guilty to murdering six elderly women in the North Shore of Sydney in the late 80s and 90s. Like our other books, it’s told in the same style as Truman Capote and reads like a novel, but, using our journalistic skills, is all based on careful research.
My other books include To Have and To Hold, the story of Walter Mikac whose wife Nanette (who was one of my writing students) was killed along with their two daughters in the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia in 1996. I have also written More Than One: Twins and Multiples and How to Survive Them as I am a mother f twins. My others books are The Australian Geographic Guide to Tasmania and my first novel, The Curer of Souls – a love story using three nineteenth century diaries as a stepping off point into fiction . it is also about evolution, Charles Darwin and the tyranny of the convict era and explores homosexuality among the convicts as the other love story is about two convict boys. Much of the book is based on fact. Lastly, I co-authored Honeymoon Dive with Jennifer Cooke which came out in 2010. This tells the story of Gabe Watson who is charged with murdering his 26-year old bride on their honeymoon while diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 2003.