Meet Victorian author Mark Brandi, winner of the UK Debut Dagger for crime fiction. His novel Wimmera is both riveting and unforgettable, bringing the darkness in a Victorian country town vividly to life as it slowly reveals its devastating secrets, more shocking than imagined.

Mark grew up Italian in a Victorian country pub, has a background in criminal justice and three policeman brothers - while he fully understands what it is to be an outsider and how to research crime, it is his ability to connect with each reader that mark him as a master storyteller in the making.

Mark tours Goldfields Libraries courtesy of the High road to Reading Program sponsored by Public Libraries Victoria.