Matthew Spencer
Before turning to fiction, Matthew Spencer spent two decades as a journalist at The Australian, where he ran the Foreign News desk and later served as Opinion Editor. His career took him across continents, writing for newspapers and magazines in Uganda and Kenya, and contributing to The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. Those years sharpened his instinct for character, conflict, and the high stakes of real-world drama, qualities that now underpin his crime fiction. Matthew holds an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Sydney, but his imagination was seeded much earlier. Born in Parramatta, the…