Occupation Writer Name Alix Bosco Genre Crime, Mystery | Period 2009 - present Nationality New Zealand Role Fiction writer | |
Mixing it up
Alix Bosco is a crime fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand.
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Life
'Alix Bosco is the pseudonym of New Zealand writer Greg McGee, as revealed in the Sunday Star Times on August 14, 2011. McGee writes in a variety of other media, 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. The novel is the first in a planned series set in Auckland and starring legal researcher Anna Markunas. The second novel Slaughter Falls is a finalist in the 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award.
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
"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
"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