Rae Cairns
Rae Cairns writes crime with heart: thrillers featuring everyday people facing extraordinary circumstances. Her debut novel The Good Mother was shortlisted for Best Debut Crime Fiction in the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards and longlisted for the 2021 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, and draws on her background as a youth worker in Northern Ireland during the final years of 'The Troubles'. Dying to Know, Rae’s second novel, is a standalone Sydney based thriller about a woman’s determination to uncover what happened to her missing sister. Rae is currently working on her third novel, a standalone thriller set between Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the NSW Central Coast and Far North Queensland. It focuses on a mother desperate to stop her teenage son from committing the unthinkable.
Rae has also co-managed a crisis refuge for street children, worked for the Sydney Olympics and holds a degree in Performing Arts. She lives in Sydney with her husband, two children, and Cookie, her dog, who snores at her feet as she writes.