Darcy Tindale
Darcy Tindale is an author, dramatic arts teacher, actor, theatresports player, director, and has appeared in television commercials, film, and on stage. She has directed plays at Newtown Theatre, St Martin’s Theatre in Victoria, Parramatta Riverside Theatre, State Theatre, Belvoir Theatre, and the Seymour Centre. Apart from novels, she has written comedy for radio, stage, media personalities, comedians and theatre restaurants. Her plays, poems, articles, and short stories have been published in magazines, anthologies and literary journals. Darcy was one of six finalists announced in the 2022 Penguin Books Literary Prize for her Adult Crime Novel. As a flow-on from this honour, she was offered a literary contract with Penguin Books for her Detective Giles series. In 2024, her novel The Fall Between, the first in the Detective Giles series, was short-listed for The Davitt and The Ned Kelly Awards for Best Debut Crime Novel.