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Welcome to the website of true crime author, novelist and freelance journalist Liz Porter.
Liz writes about “the real CSI” in books that read like crime fiction but tell true stories about the way real-life forensic scientists solve crimes and mysteries.
Her first forensic science book Written On The Skin: An Australian forensic casebook shared the 2007 Ned Kelly Prizefor best true crime book.
Her second, Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science, won the 2012 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for best true crime book. Her third, Crime Scene Asia: when forensic evidence becomes the silent witness was published by Singapore’s Marshall Cavendish in early 2018 and was republished by Australia’s Big Sky in May 2018
A regular public speaker on crime and forensic science, Liz is now researching the history of police forensics in Victoria for a PhD at La Trobe University.
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Unnatural Order is Liz’s first novel, published in 1995 and now available as an e-book. Published by Clan Destine Press, it is available on Amazon.
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Liz’s first forensic science book, Written On The Skin, shared the 2007 Ned Kelly Prize for best true crime book and garnered rave reviews which described it as “reading like good crime fiction”.
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For Liz’s second forensic science book, Cold Case Files, she decided to broaden her focus and look at British and US cases as well as Australian ones.
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For Liz’s third book, Crime Scene Asia: when forensic evidence becomes the silent witness (Big Sky, RRP $29.99) she decided to look at crime investigation in Asia. The result is a casebook of fascinating true stories from Singapore, Malaysia, HK, The Philippines and Indonesia.
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