Shane Maloney is the author of Stiff, The Brush-Off-winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction-and The Big Ask. Two of his Murray Whelan novels have been adapted for television in Australia. In 2009, Mr. Maloney received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers Association of Australia. Before he became Australia's top crime writer, he gave his all as a director of cultural programs to help Melbourne in its bid to host the Summer Olympics. "It was my job to convince the IOC that we weren't a complete pack of yoiks,” he recalls. He resides in Melbourne, Australia.
