Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist and author who has written in a variety of genres. Her last book was the best-selling Women of the Outback: Inspiring True Stories of Tragedy and Triumph. Others include Peter Ryan: The Inside Story; Mean Streets, Kind Heart: The Father Chris Riley Story; and And Then the Darkness, about the disappearance of the British backpacker Peter Falconio for ABC Books, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Golden Dagger Award in the UK for the international True Crime Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Awards in Australia.