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Natalie Conyer

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Born

Cape Town, South Africa

Website

https://natalieconyer.com

Twitter

@NatalieConyer

Genre

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Influences

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Member Since

January 2013

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I'm a reader of everything and a crime fiction writer.

My first novel, Present Tense, is the first in the Schalk Lourens series. It won the 2020 Ned Kelly Award for best debut crime fiction.

Shadow City, the next book in the series, was published in 2024.

My third book, Finding the Bones, is due out in 2026...and a fourth is under way.

A collection of my short stories, titled The Book Club and Other Stories, was published in 2024.
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Average rating: 4.03 · 203 ratings · 43 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Present Tense (A Schalk Lourens Mystery #1) 4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow City by Natalie Conyer (Goodreads Author), John Telfer (reader) 4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow City: New crime fiction from Ned Kelly award-winning author 3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology by Narrelle M. Harris (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Greg Herren, Atlin Merrick 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarlet Stiletto: The Fourteenth Cut - 2022 by Phyllis King (editor), Danielle Angeli (contributor), Brid Cummings (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarlet Stiletto: The Ninth Cut - 2017 by Phyllis King (Editor), Rowena Harding-Smith, Lucy Kiff 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Undercover with Mandela’s Spies: The Story of the Boy who Crossed the Square

by Bradley Steyn

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South (Divided States, #1)

by Frank Owen

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The Eye of the Beholder

by Margie Orford

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Natalie’s Quotes

“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make such enormous strides in so short a time.”
― Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer

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