Tony Berry

Tony Berry is a lifelong journalist working in the UK and Australia. Done Deal, his first novel, met with immediate success by winning a New South Wales Genre Fiction Award.

A sequel, Washed Up, followed a year later and that too won a NSW Genre Fiction Award plus a mentorship from the Australian Society of Authors under acclaimed author Sophie Masson..

After a gap in which he concentrated on editing other writers’ works, he produced Death By Diamonds, the third book in the series featuring disgraced secret service agent and reluctant sleuth Bromo Perkins as its hero and crime-solver.

In early 2016, Tony was accepted into the inaugural crime-writing residency at Canada’s prestigious Banff Centre for Excellence with best-selling crime writers Michael Robotham and Louise Welsh as his mentors. This was followed by the completion of Twisted Trees, his fourth book which, like its predecessors, is set in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond.

Late in 2016, Endeavour Books contracted with Tony to issue all four of the Bromo series as e-books. Done Deal and Washed Up were published in October and December respectively. The re-titled Death by Diamonds and Twisted Trees appeared in early 2017.

Tony has since re-issued all books as paperbacks and completed the fifth Bromo Perkins book, Death Comes By Drone, which is available worldwide as a paperback or an e-book.

Tony continues to be kept busy as a professional editor of fiction and non-fiction. For recreation, he competes regularly as one of the UK’s top age-group runners over distances from 5km to the full marathon and enjoys reliving his 1980s' detour into life as a chef by cooking up a storm in the kitchen.