Dorothy Johnston

Dorothy has achieved national recognition for her literary fiction with One for the Master and Ruth being shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Dorothy’s fifth novel, and her debut crime novel, The Trojan Dog was ACT Book of the Year 2001, runner-up in the inaugural Davitt Award and featured in the Age Best of 2000, crime section. It was followed by a sequel, The White Tower. Her new literary novel, The House at Number 10, was published the same year and was also well received.

Dorothy's latest crime novel is Eden. It is the third book in the Sandra Mahoney series was published by Wakefield Press in 2007. She lives in Canberra.

Website: http://www.webone.com.au/~dorothy

Books by Dorothy Johnston

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  The Trojan Dog

  The Trojan Dog is a thriller that deals in emotions and ideas while offering the reader a pacy, political plot. Sandra Mahoney is a low-level public servant, caught in a spin of loyalty and paranoia sliced and diced as only Canberra can. The Sandra Maloney series continues with The White Tower.

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  The White Tower

  The White Tower begins with an investigation into the suicide of a young man, Niall Howley. Obsessed by an interactive computer game. Niall's death, caused by jumping from a telecomunications tower in the heart of Canberra, mimics in an eerie way the virtual death scripted for him in the game.

  This is the second book in the Sandra Mahoney series which began with The Trojan Dog.

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  The House at Number 10

  Sophie Harper is abandoned by her husband and left with a four-year-old daughter to support. She finds work in an old house in Canberra that is being used as a brothel. She falls under the house’s eerie, yet strangely comforting spell, and discovers within herself not only the ability to perform well, and delight in the freedom bought by an independent income, but the capacity to learn from the men and women she encounters there. One of these men, Jack, teaches her more about revenge than she ever wished to know.

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  Eden

  Eden Carmichael, a politician, is found dead in a brothel on a hot afternoon. Sandra Mahoney mulls over a demeaning photograph showing Carmichael in a dress and blonde wig. When a lobby group asks her to investigate a company producing filters for the internet, Mahoney is surprised to discover a trail that others have ignored.

  Eden shows Mahoney and her creator, Dorothy Johnston, at their most assured and accomplished yet.

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