WAKE

Shelley Burr is the winner of the CWA Debut Dagger award with Wake, an alumni of the ACT Writer's Centre Hardcopy program (2018) and a Varuna fellow. When not writing she works at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. She lives in Canberra, but grew up splitting her time between Newcastle and Glenrowan, where her father's family are all sheep farmers. WAKE is Shelley's first novel.

A stand-out crime novel which looks at what can happen when private tragedies become public property

"Politically savvy, cleverly plotted...the kind of book that invites the ravenous language of binge reading: compulsive, propulsive, addictive." — New York Times Book Review
“Genuinely gripping…Burr takes a solid framework and builds a darn fine, frequently impressive house around it out of secrets, human evil, and abiding grief and guilt.” — Criminal Element
“[An] outstanding debut…With a slow build and complex characters, this is both a well-plotted gripping mystery and a sensitive exploration of the aftermath of trauma.” — The Guardian (UK)
"A nerve-jangling thriller with a brilliantly twisty plot." — Rose Carlyle, bestselling author of The Girl in the Mirror
"If you love Jane Harper's books, you will love WAKE even more." — Kayte Nunn, bestselling author of The Silk House and The Last Reunion
"Shelley Burr is a bright new talent in Australian crime fiction." — Chris Hammer, bestselling author of Scrublands
"WAKE is an incredible read." — Allie Reynolds, author of Shiver