Donna Osborne is an Australian author whose writing explores
grief, justice, survival, and the quiet violences people learn to live
around. Her stories are grounded in place, shaped by ordinary lives
under pressure, and drawn to the moments where buried truths begin
to surface.
No Next of Kin is the first of her crime novels set against the wild beauty and
isolation of Tasmania’s north-west coast.
Some roads don’t lead back.
Out of the Tasmanian bush, a young woman stumbles into the path of an oncoming car. She carries nothing — no phone, no pack, not even her name.
In…
A holiday in Tasmania should have been the beginning of something.
For one young couple, the crossing was meant to be a fresh start: the ferry, the open road, the wild western coa…
At dawn on West Beach, a dog walker finds a girl in the tide line.
Sixteen-year-old Isla Merrick is barely alive. She has no phone, no bag, no memory she can give police, and the …
