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Tess Merlin

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Tess Merlin is an ex-police officer and writer. Her first novel RANK was written from her lived experiences as a policewoman and as someone with personal experience of the trauma of being stalked.

Her second book Red Dirt Blue Lights was a Finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards. This historical fiction novella tells an emotional and subtly educational story of Australian Indigenous history, set in Cherbourg and surrounds. The engaging story is grounded in historical integrity, cultural consultation and research, and her personal experience as a young policewoman in the 1970s.

Tess writes from the peaceful shores in Gubbi Gubbi country. She believes that stories written about Indigenous communities should benefit those communities. A
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My first novel RANK started out as a Crime Fiction but as I wrote it I realized that half of it was true to my own life experiences as a Policewoman in Australia in the 1980s.
Published in February 2023 as an Autobiographical Novel, this book intertwines those real life experiences with a thrilling story involving stalking, online dating and much more.
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