Redhead, Leigh

Born in Adelaide in 1971, Leigh Redhead burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2004 with Peepshow, which introduced the trouble-finding, fun-loving, ex-stripper, PI Simone Kirsch, to readers. Simone made her next appearance in Rubdown (2005), followed by Cherry Pie (2007). Leigh was nominated as one of The Sydney Morning Herald''s Best Young Australian Novelists in 2005 and 2006, and also won the Sisters in Crime Davitt Reader''s Choice Award in 2005 and 2006.;