Alix Bosco

Alix Bosco is a crime fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand.

Life

'Alix Bosco is the pseudonym of New Zealand writer Greg McGee, as revealed in the Sunday Star Times on August 14, 2011.^[1] McGee writes in a variety of other media,^[2] and therefore wanted to keep his crime-writing persona separate.

Writing

In August 2009 Alix Bosco's first thriller novel, Cut & Run, was published in New Zealand by Penguin Books and won the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2010.^[3] The novel is the first in a planned series set in Auckland and starring legal researcher Anna Markunas.^[4] The second novel Slaughter Falls is a finalist in the 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award.^[5]

Reviews

"Oh, it was such fun playing spot-the-Kiwi-celeb in this cracking thriller from Alix Bosco. A rugby star is found dead, murdered while making love to a beautiful woman. Mikky St Clair is a gorgeous media tart, famous for being famous and for her conquests. Sound like anyone you might have seen in the social pages?" Kerre Woodham, Paper Plus Book Talk^[6]

"An edgy and fast paced thriller... I look forward to more from Bosco." Joanne Taylor, Latitude magazine

"Bosco creates an enjoyable page-turner not only through the ‘did Fifita really do it?’ plotline hook, kicked up a notch when subsequent discoveries put Markunas in danger, but through her creation of characters with some nice depth and complexity." Craig Sisterson, NZLawyer magazine ^[7]

"This bleak, topical novel is a substantial achievement and a welcome addition to the slim canon of New Zealand crime fiction" Paul Thomas, New Zealand Herald

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