Kim Hunt
Wellington
The Beautiful Dead, The Quarry, The Freezer, The Corrector
Cal Nyx Series, Evin Hart Series
Amateur Sleuth, Thriller
Kim was a runner up in the 2023 Sisters in Crime USA Pride Awards, recognizing her as an Emerging LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Writer. She was born in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and spent her early years on the wild southern coast at Makara. Further honed by twenty-five years of Australian life in cities, on the road and in the bush. Her first career as a gardener and horticulturalist lives on in her love of the natural world. She spends her non-writing time wrangling old cars, wiring diagrams and workshop manuals Kim is the author of four previous novels: the NSW-set Cal Nyx series including The Beautiful Dead, (shortlisted for Best First Novel in the Ngaio Marsh Awards), The Quarry, (longlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Awards) and The Freezer. Her New Zealand-set The Corrector, featuring reluctant hero Evin Hart, will be followed by The Adjustment in 2027. A fourth Cal Nyx mystery is also in progress. Kim currently lives and writes in Aotearoa (New Zealand).