Sulari Gentill

Sulari Gentill is a Sri Lankan-born Australian author, also known under the pen name of S. D. Gentill. She initially studied astrophysics before becoming a corporate lawyer, but has since become a writer of mystery and fantasy fiction.

Sulari Gentill
Born	Sri Lanka
Occupation	novelist
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	2010-present
Notable works	Crossing the Lines Rowland Sinclair series
Notable awards	Davitt Award (2) Ned Kelly Award

Her novel Crossing the Lines won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction.^[1] Crossing the Lines was published as After She Wrote Him in Northern America.^[2] Gentill's A Few Right Thinking Men was nominated for a 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize.^[3]

Early life

Gentill was born in Sri Lanka. She was raised in Zambia and Brisbane, Australia.^[4]

Education

Gentill started studying astrophysics, but ended up graduating in law.

Career

Gentill was a corporate lawyer.^[4]

Gentill abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. When the mood takes her, she paints, although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write.

She grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, which she shares with her young family and several animals.

Gentill is the author of the award-winning Rowland Sinclair mysteries, a series of historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s about Rowland Sinclair, the gentleman artist and amateur detective. The first in the series, A Few Right Thinking Men was shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book. A Decline in Prophets, the second in the series, won the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction. Paving the New Road, set in Nazi Germany, was shortlisted for the Davitt Award. A Murder Unmentioned and A Testament of Character were finalists in the Ned Kelly Awards.

Under the name S. D. Gentill, Sulari also writes a fantasy adventure series called The Hero Trilogy. All three books in the trilogy, Chasing Odysseus, Trying War and The Blood of Wolves are out now, and available in paperback, in a trilogy pack, and as eBooks.^[5]

Bibliography

Rowland Sinclair series

1. A Few Right Thinking Men (2010)
2. A Decline in Prophets (2011)^[6]
3. Miles Off Course (2012)
4. Paving the New Road (2012)
5. Gentlemen Formerly Dressed (2013)^[7]
6. A Murder Unmentioned (2014)^[8]
7. Give the Devil His Due (2015)
8. A Dangerous Language (2017)
9. All the Tears in China (2019)
10. A Testament of Character (2020)

Audio versions of The Rowland Sinclair Series are narrated by Rupert Degas.

The Hero Trilogy

1. Chasing Odysseus (2011)
2. Trying War (2012)
3. The Blood of Wolves (2012)

Stand-alone novels

• Crossing the Lines (2017) Poisoned Pen Press, ISBN 9781464209147 (aka After She Wrote Him (2020))
• The Woman in the Library (2022) Poisoned Pen Press
• The Mystery Writer (2024) Poisoned Pen Press

Personal life

Gentill's husband is Michael. They have two children, Edmund and Atticus Blenkins.^[4]

See also

• Ned Kelly Awards