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Caroline De Costa Caroline De Costa i(A118024 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Caroline de Costa has been a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, based originally in Cairns and, as of 2019, more often in Melbourne. She has written a range of non-fiction books for women on reproductive health. As well as her short works, she is the author of the Detective Cass Diamond series, set in Cairns.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 winner Scarlet Stiletto Awards Viliama Grakalic Best Art and Crime Story Award for 'The Fragrance of the Corpse Flower'.
2020 highly commended Scarlet Stiletto Awards Best Crime Short Story for 'Love in the Time of Coronavirus'.
2020 highly commended Scarlet Stiletto Awards Best Crime Short Story for 'Combustible'.

Awards for Works

Spiderwoman 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: Scarlet Stiletto : The Fifteenth Cut 2023;
2023 shortlisted Scarlet Stiletto Awards
y separately published work icon Hidden Lives Tingalpa : Boolarong Press , 2021 21936871 2021 single work novel crime

'It seems a perfect beach in tropical north Queensland, yet a sign marks the site where fifteen Aboriginal people were massacred more than a century before. Then on a sunny morning in 2002 the body of a young Aboriginal woman washes up on the sand. Accident … or murder?

'Close by lives Cairns forensic pathologist Leah Rookwood, on the island handed down through four generations of Rookwoods. As Leah’s colleague Detective Leslie Fernando investigates the modern- day death, Leah discovers some dubious history in her own family. Are the distant events and the current tragedy linked?'

Source : publisher's blurb

2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
y separately published work icon Blood Sisters Cheltenham : Wild Dingo Press , 2019 15398650 2019 single work novel crime

'A young Asian woman lies in a pool of blood in a Cairns motel. Transferred to hospital, she dies before she can tell her story. Detective Cass Diamond and her team are soon on the case.

'The third Cass Diamond mystery explores sex trafficking and abortion, teenage emotions and adult mischief, in a story as densely branched as the rainforest itself. Caroline de Costa holds her readers captive until the very last word.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
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