Sandi Wallace Books In Order

Publication Order of Georgie Harvey & John Franklin Books

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Anthologies

Sandi Wallace is a crime, thriller, and suspense novelist best known for the Georgie Harvey and John Franklin series of novels. Before she became a bestselling novelist, she was interested in policing and worked in different roles as a journalist, banker, personal trainer, paralegal, executive assistant, and office manager. Over the years her short crime fiction has won many awards including several Scarlet Stilleto Awards. Tell Me Why her debut novel was the winner of the Davitt Award Readers’ Choice. Her crime fiction work has been commended by critics, authors, and serving police officers in addition to readers. Her suspenseful, fast-paced, and engaging work featuring characters working in rural and urban settings has been called Aussie Noir at its best. Given her experience and popularity, she has been invited to speak in press interviews, panels, book groups, conferences, libraries, schools, and literary festivals. Sandi currently makes her home on Phillip Island off the Victorian Southern coast.

Growing up, Sandi Wallace was an avid reader who loved reading just about anything. When she was about six years old, she graduated from the lovely old-fashioned adventures of Enid Blyton to her Famous Five series. It was from the latter that she got addicted to mystery and crime fiction. Back then she loved the vivid settings and young characters in the Famous Five novels particularly the adventurist and tomboy Georgina she could relate to. It was from the latter that she developed a love for strong female characters and atmospheric settings. It was during this time that she also started dreaming of one day becoming a novelist. However, life happened and it took a very long time before she got around to writing her debut novel in 2014. Unlike other novelists, her debut novel Tell Me Why was the first manuscript she wrote and published. Nonetheless several of her short stories and articles were published before 2014. Sandi Wallace was also lucky that her work made the longlists and shortlists for several short crime contests and won some awards.

Outside of writing, Sandi Wallace attempts to find balance in her life with other endeavors. She majors as a personal fitness instructor and trainer and is lucky that she usually has half a week where she does her fitness work while the rest she spends on family time and writing. While she would rather write for most of the week, she usually finds that she has the best flow toward the end of the week. Wallace usually writes from a beautiful study that they built with recycled materials and items they have collected over the years. Besides her writing and fitness training, she also loves taking coastal and country drives and walks, gardening, canoeing, bike riding, fishing, and cozying up with family. When she is at home, Sandi loves reading and watching crime shows and books, red wine, neat whisky, and black coffee.
Sandi Wallace writes a fascinating work in Tell Me Why the debut novel of the Georgie Harvey & John Franklin series of novels. The lead is introduced as Georgie Harvey a copywriter who gets a request from Ruby her elderly next-door neighbor. Her neighbor needs her to run down to Daylesford to check on Susan her old friend. The latter’s husband had gone missing in a farm fire some years earlier and Ruby had kept up a line of communication over the years. But in the last week, Susan has not answered her phone and Ruby is worried about her friend. In Daylesford, Susan is nowhere to be found but the police do not think she should be reported as a missing person yet. Meanwhile, Georgie is also dealing with other distractions back in the city including a partner pressuring her to accept his marriage proposal while her boss wil not stop pressuring her about missed deadlines. However, she thinks there is something very weird about Susan’s disappearance. She begins to dig into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of her husband as she believes there could be a connection. It is a work that begins as a slow-burn mystery only to build up the suspense to end in an explosive ending.

In Dead Again, Sandi Wallace continues to follow the life and times of Georgie who heads to a rural Victorian town. She is working on a piece on the recovery from a major bushfire that ravaged the town and the lives of many of the locals. The locals believe she is doing a puff piece and are thus hesitant to talk to her and it does not help that she is an outsider. Georgie stumbles upon a missing person story and since she is more of a wannabe police officer working as a journalist, she begins to investigate even as she works on the story of the bushfire even for her magazine. Further complicating things is that She has been with AJ her partner for several years but now she cannot stop thinking of Franklin sexually and romantically. In the meantime, Franklin is showing the ropes of police work to a newbie female cop, and trying to fend off the awe in which he is held by the recruit. He has been investigating a series of crimes in his area even as he navigates trying to bring up a teenage daughter which he finds to be particularly challenging. Just like the previous novel, it builds up beautifully but slowly as Georgie and Franklin go on a journey in which they are bound to collide once again.

Sandi Wallace’s Into the Fog is yet again a brilliant work that tells what has to be one of the most interesting stories in the series. A young girl and her two brothers go missing from a temporary camp for kids in Daylesford. The camp is held by the Daylesford police and is comprised of kids who have suffered from deprivation or family trauma. But one night, there is a huge storm during which it is discovered that the three siblings have gone missing. When Franklin learns about the missing children, he cannot help but feel that he needs to do something about it. The list of possible villains is too long from the terrain to the housekeeper and her increasingly odd husband, and most of all the creepy house owner who had lent them the house. The massive storm just makes things even harder as the likelihood of sightings is low while the search parties have to deal with blocked roads, fallen trees, and searching in the cold and wet.