Katherine Howell

Katherine Howell is one of the highly popular authors from Australia, who is famous for writing mystery, thriller, and suspense books. She is particularly well known for writing the Detective Ella Marconi novel series. Prior to the start of her writing career, Howell used to work as a paramedic. She was involved in this profession for a period of 15 years. During this period, author Howell also obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the field of creative writing. Eventually, she started her writing career in the year 2007 and wrote her debut book under the title of Frantic. The Pan Macmillan publication released it in the same year. The novel introduced the title character of Ella Marconi as a detective working in the Sydney police department. It went on to become a huge success and was labeled by the Sydney Morning Herald as a thriller with an adrenaline rush. The success of the book as well as author Howell increased even more after winning the Davitt award in 2008 for being the best crime fiction book. Following this success, Howell wrote her second book which continued to show the same pattern with Ella Marconi and another paramedic in the lead roles. Author Howell’s third book went on to appear in the list of Australian bestselling books of the year. It also allowed author Howell to travel on a ‘P&O’ cruise as a guest author. New York Times bestselling novelist named Tess Gerritsen labeled the book as one of her favorite books. This novel also received the Davitt award in 2011. With this award, author Howell became the only author who has won it two times. The books that came later in her career also became highly successful and allowed author Howell to become even more popular. All the books that she has written in her career so far have been translated into multiple foreign languages and published all across the globe. Her works have been appreciated by one and all and have been compared with the likes of authors Patricia Cornwell and Karin Slaughter. In addition to writing, author Howell also works as a teacher, teaching the art of editing and creative writing to her students. As of today, she lives in Queensland along with a partner, who is the owner of a bookshop.