Rose Carlyle is a law professor who has written intermittently throughout her life and who began writing fiction in 2016. She was awarded first class honours in her creative writing Masters at the University of Auckland and was granted a prestigious mentorship under which she developed and completed this manuscript. She spends her spare time in far-flung places and currently lives in New Zealand. The Girl in the Mirror is her debut novel.
At CrimeReads, Carlyle tagged seven "books that have transported me to places I’ve never been with such vividness that I feel as though I have." One title on the list:
Call Me Evie by JP PomareRead about the other entries on the list.
“Evie,” the young woman who narrates this impressive debut thriller, is coy about everything including her real name, but she doesn’t hold back when describing Maketu, the brooding, remote New Zealand village she finds herself living in with a mysterious man who seems to be her captor. While Evie misses the city she left behind, the reader is enthralled by the wintry, haunted landscape, the menacing ocean, and the locals who seem to know too much about her troubled past. Melbourne-based Pomare chose a setting he knows intimately as the perfect backdrop to this atmospheric and unsettling tale.
--Marshal Zeringue
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