About the author

J.M. Green is a crime writer based in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Her debut novel, GOOD MONEY, the first hardboiled-crime novel featuring Stella Hardy, was shortlisted for a 2016 Ned Kelly Award, the Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Award for best debut, as well as the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. The trilogy concludes with TOO EASY (2017) and SHOOT THROUGH (2019).

‘Stella Hardy rips through her world with wit, guts, brains and vulnerability, blazing fresh trails through the twisted urban landscapes of modern Australia. J.M. Green’s prose is blistering — funny, real and nuanced in just the right proportions. This is my kind of crime writing’
– PETER DOYLE, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE BILLY GLASHEEN CRIME NOVELS

‘Stella Hardy is wonderful — all over the place, like a broken compass, and yet she always manages to head in the right direction. Funny, complex, and very human, in Stella, J.M. Green has created a character readers simply love.’
– WILLIAM MCINNES

J. M. Green lives and works on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation the Traditional Owners and custodians of the land and waterways. Sovereignty was never ceded.