Trish McCormack

Trish McCormack is an archivist by day and a crime writer by night. Her latest novel Girl of the Mountains (2024) is set in New Zealand's Southern Alps near the famous Hermitage at Aoraki/Mt Cook. It's a dual timeline mystery featuring a woman mountain guide. Trish formerly worked as a small-town journalist and in various New Zealand national parks where she set her crime fiction trilogy featuring glacier guide sleuth Philippa Barnes. She spent some years living by the lake featured in Assigned to Murder and also lived in Franz Josef which features in the second Philippa Barnes mystery, Glacier Murder. Her third novel, Cold Hard Murder is set in Paparoa National Park, home to the famous Pancake Rocks and a sinister labyrinth of caves. Trish is intrigued by the disparate people who end up living in the wilderness and often wonders what they could be running away from.