Kel Robertson

Kel Robertson is an Australian crime novelist who was born in the 1950s on the south coast of New South Wales. His novel Smoke & Mirrors shared the 2009 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel award with Deep Water by Peter Corris.
Robertson lived in Sydney and a number of New South Wales country towns before entering high school in Bathurst. He has studied at a number of tertiary institutions and currently lives in Canberra where he works as a solicitor.
He is the author of three novels featuring the Chinese-Australian Federal Police investigator, Brad Chen.

• Dead Set (2006)
• Smoke and Mirrors (2008)
• Rip Off (2011)

• 2006 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards — Best First Novel for Dead Set
• 2009 winner Ned Kelly Awards — Best Novel for Smoke and Mirrors
• 2009 winner ACT Writers Centre's Literary Awards — Fiction for Smoke and Mirrors
• 2009 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Writing for Smoke and Mirrors