After setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law and then abandoning her legal career to write books, Sulari Gentill now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW. Sulari is author of the Rowland Sinclair mystery series, historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s. Sulari’s A DECLINE IN PROPHETS (the second book in the series) was the winner of the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction 2012. She was also shortlisted for Best First Book (A FEW RIGHT THINKING MEN) for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011. PAVING THE NEW ROAD was shortlisted for another Davitt in 2013.