Links:

    -AUTHOR SITE: emma-viskic.com
    -WIKIPEDIA: Emma Viskic
    -AUTHOR TWITTER FEED: @emmaviskic
    -AUTHOR PAGE: Emma Viskic (Pushkin Press)
    -AUTHOR PAGE: Emma Viskic (Sue Leonard)
    -BOOK SITE: Resurection Bay (Penguin Random House)
    -ESSAY: Rural Australia: The Perfect Setting For Mystery: 5 Crime Novels Set In Small-Town Australia (Emma Viskic, October 25, 2018, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: The Best Australian Crime Fiction (recommended by Emma Viskic, 5 Books)
    -ESSAY: The Unexpected Benefits of Writing a Deaf Character (Emma Viskic, April 12, 2018, Amazon Book Review)
    -ESSAY: Small Beginnings 13 (Emma Viskic, 6/20/16, Feathers of the Firebird)
    -ESSAY: How Crime Writing Is Like Music: A Musician's Secrets for Writing a Lyrical, Rhythmic Crime Novel (Emma Viskic, May 14, 2018, Crime Reads)
    -PODCAST: Emma Viskic - Only One Rule, MAKE YOUR OWN RULES - JoinedUp#86 (Joined Up Writing Podcast, Sep 25, 2018)
    -VIDEO DISCUSSION: Authors Emma Viskic, Karina Kilmore and Natalie Conyer on flawed heroes in crime fiction (Sisters in Crime Australia, 4/03/20)
    -Emma Viskic Books In Order (Book Series in Order)
    -PROFILE: The long and winding road that leads to Emma Viskic's gritty fiction (Miriam Cosic, November 30, 2019, The Age)

It's remarkable how much goes on in Emma Viskic's award-winning novels. Busy is the least of it, and we're not just talking plot. The protagonist, fraud investigator Caleb Zelic, is deaf. He has a Slavic background, a Koori wife and a drug-addicted brother. The minutiae of streetscapes and locutions are precisely laid out, as are the subtle and not-so-subtle topographies of racism, sexism, ableism and other interpersonal landscapes. And then there are the police procedurals.

Viskic's voice is calm and practical. She was a professional clarinettist for 20 years and specialised in chamber music, which is a conversation between voices with no managerial authority vested in a conductor.

Her father is Dalmatian, her mother Irish Australian from Tasmania. Viskic grew up just outside of Frankston, a very English environment then. She says being half-Slav gave her an outsider status that honed her power of observation. Her husband was raised in a Koori family and they have two grown daughters. One of her primary school classmates was deaf and the disability – and particularly the refusal to accept it as a disability by the deaf community – has always intrigued her. She learned Auslan for the novels.

    -PROFILE: It's a crime spree as Emma Viskic snaffles four writing awards (Jason Steger, August 26, 2016 , The Age)
    -PROFILE: How crime writing is like music: Emma Viskic’s secrets for writing a lyrical, rhythmic crime novel (Sisters in Crime)
    -PROFILE: Emma Viskic returns to the scene of her crime spree (Jason Steger, August 10, 2018, Sydney Morning Herald)
    -INTERVIEW: On the burn: Q&A with Emma Viskic (Sisters in Crime)
    -INTERVIEW: Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Emma Viskic (Reading, Writing and Riesling, December 23, 2015)
    -INTERVIEW: Emma Viskic answers Booktopia’s Ten Terrifying Questions (Anastasia Hadjidemetri, February 1, 2016 , Booktopia)
    -INTERVIEW: Q&A with Emma Viskic, author of And Fire Came Down (Better Reading, 20 September 2017)
    -INTERVIEW: #WhereIWrite: Crime author Emma Viskic (Australian Writers' Centre)
    -INTERVIEW: And Fire Came Down: Emma Viskic Talks (Sean O'Leary, Crime Time)
    -Interview: Sound and Silence: Emma Viskic on Creating a Profoundly Deaf Protagonist (Foyle's, 9/14/17)
    -INTERVIEW: Hear No Evil: PW Talks with Emma Viskic (Lenny Picker, Feb 09, 2018, Publishers Weekly)
    -PODCAST: #37 – Emma Viskic – Write Through The Roof (Madeleine D'Este, July 15, 2018)
    -INTERVIEW: Casting a Deaf Character in a PI Role: Author Emma Viskic on avoiding tokenism and learning sign language (Joanne P, Apr 5, 2018, Booklover Book reviews)
    -INTERVIEW: Solving crimes in silence: EMMA VISKIC AND HER AWARD-WINNING AUSSIE TALES (Crimespree Magazine | Dec 10, 2018 | M?wake Crime Review)
    -INTERVIEW: Sophisticated spies and surprise reunions: an interview with Emma Viskic (Crime Watch, June 20, 2018)
    -Stop You're Killing Me: Emma Viskic
    -ESSAY: The New Class of Australian Crime Writers: Your Guide to the Best of Outback Noir (Chris Hammer, January 23, 2019, Crime Reads)
    -ARCHIVES: Emma Viskic (Crime Reads)
    -VIDEO ARCHIVES: "emma viskic" (You Tube)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Nicola Mira, Thriller Books Journal)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Simon McDonald, Written by Sime)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Louise Truscott, Single White Female Writer)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Tracey, Carpe Librum)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Mysteries in Paradise)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Fleur Morrison, readability)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Shelley Rae, Book'd out)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Mrs B's Book Reviews)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (DeathBecomesHer, Crime Fiction Review)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Raven Crime Reads)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Fiona Hardy, readings)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Sue Turnbull, Sydney Morning Herald)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Booklover Book Reviews)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Chris Roberts, Crime Review)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Clover Hill Book Reviews)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Jacob Collins, Hooked from Page One)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Northern Crime)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Mystery in Minutes)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Laura Wilson, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Arts Review)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Reading Matters Blog)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Craig Sisterson, Mystery Scene)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Last Word Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Karen Chisolm, Australian Crime Fiction)
    -REVIEW: of Resurrection Bay (Jon Coates, Daily Express)
    -REVIEW: of And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of And Fire Came Down (Simon McDonald, Written by Sime)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light by Emma Viskic (Saturday Paper)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Simon McDonald, Written by Sime)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Anna Creer, Canberra Times)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Rod Mclary, Queensland Reviewers Collective)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Paul Burke, NB)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Murder, Mayhem and Long Dogs)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Better Reading)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Debbish)
    -REVIEW: of Darkness For Light (Narrelle M. Harris)