Fast News

  • 17 December 2009 - Smoke and Mirrors wins the Best Fiction prize at the ACT Writers Centre 2009 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards.
  • 24 November 2009 - Smoke and Mirrors wins 2009 Canberra Critics Circle Award for writing.
  • 18 November 2009 - Kel Robertson wins inaugural Australian Republican Movement short story competition.
  • 28 August 2009 - Smoke and Mirrors shares the Ned Kelly Awards Best Fiction prize with Deep Water by Peter Corris.

  

Last Update: 4 January 2010

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    Kel Robertson is the author of two critically lauded crime novels featuring the Chinese-Australian Federal Police investigator, Brad Chen.

    Dead Set was released in February 2006.  In it, Chen investigates the murder of a Federal Minister for Immigration.  The task takes him to Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and the Central Coast of New South Wales. Dead Set was shortlisted for the 2006 Ned Kelly Awards Best First Fiction prize.

    Smoke and Mirrors was released in August 2008 and sees Chen attempting to solve the double murder of a Whitlam Government Minister and the editor of the ex-Minister's long-awaited memoirs.  Smoke and Mirrors is set entirely in the Canberra region and was joint winner of the 2009 Ned Kelly Awards Best Fiction prize, sharing honours with Peter Corris's Deep Water.

    Kel is currently working on a third Brad Chen novel.