Sydney Bauer
Author of Undertow
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- Canonical name
- Bauer, Sydney
- Birthdate
- 1968
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Australia
- Places of residence
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupations
- Journalist
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Author - Short biography
- Sydney Bauer is the author of the crime series featuring Boston based criminal attorney David Cavanagh. Her debut novel Undertow, also the first novel in the series, was published in 2006 and won the Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for the best crime novel by an Australian Woman.
Sydney’s background is in journalism and television. While studying for a Communications degree in the 1980s she worked as a copy girl at a major Australian newspaper and then secured a cadetship that led to a position as a crime, legal and courts reporter. She eventually moved on to become a features editor for an young women’s magazine before finally changing direction completely and moving to television.
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Four school friends leave school and are now a wealthy US Senator (Chris) , a lawyer (David), a Priest (Mike) and the fourth (Marilyn) remains Chris’ lover throughout her adult years. When Chris is accused of Marilyn’s murder old friendships are rekindled as David endeavours to defend his friend. However, their partnership is severed when the David discovers the litany of lies being told by his David and his family. An unlikely discovery of evidence proving Chris’ innocence brings David back to defend Chris only two weeks before the trial is to begin. A suspended career cop, who was working for the prosecution, is David’s closest ally. Together they work tirelessly to find the real killer while an arrogant prosecutor is doing his best to obstruct any further investigation into the case believing that he has the real killer on trial. Can the real killer be exposed before the end of the trial? And can you pick the end of this story?… (more)
for a first book by an Australian author - I thought it was a typical American book, filled with American law terms and American ways of life that I feel I have read before - black versus white, American congressman and his rich wife lose their daughter to an freak boating accident , by her black friends mother and the court proceedings that follow - very boring and predictable - not that impressed .
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I listened to the audio CD version and while my wife was not impressed with Bill Ten Eyck character voices I thought he painted a wonderful picture of all characters in this book, especially assistant district attorney Katz, with his voice.
Undertow is Sydney Bauer’s debut thriller and is an equal to Matter of Trust. I hope Move to Strike is as good. If Ms Bauer can continue producing works such as Undertow and Matter of Trust, she will become, at the very least, my favourite Australian author.
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