Life

'Alix Bosco is the pseudonym

Pseudonym

A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...

 of New Zealand writer Greg McGee

Greg McGee

-Biography:McGee was born in 1950 in the South Island town of Oamaru. In his early 20s McGee was a Junior All Black and an All Black trialist. He graduated from the University of Otago with a law degree in 1972....

, as revealed in the Sunday Star Times on August 14th. McGee writes in a variety of other media, and therefore wanted to keep his crime-writing persona separate.

Writing

In August 2009 Alix Bosco's first thriller novel, Cut & Run, was published in New Zealand by Penguin Books

Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...

 and won the inaugural Ngaio Marsh

Ngaio Marsh

Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900...

 Award for Best Crime Novel in 2010. The novel is the first in a planned series set in Auckland and starring legal researcher Anna Markunas. The second novel Slaughter Falls is a finalist in the 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award.

Reviews

"Oh, it was such fun playing spot-the-Kiwi-celeb in this cracking thriller from Alix Bosco. A rugby star is found dead, murdered while making love to a beautiful woman. Mikky St Clair is a gorgeous media tart, famous for being famous and for her conquests. Sound like anyone you might have seen in the social pages?"
Kerre Woodham, Paper Plus Book Talk

"An edgy and fast paced thriller... I look forward to more from Bosco." Joanne Taylor, Latitude magazine

"Bosco creates an enjoyable page-turner not only through the ‘did Fifita really do it?’ plotline hook, kicked up a notch when subsequent discoveries put Markunas in danger, but through her creation of characters with some nice depth and complexity." Craig Sisterson, NZLawyer magazine

"This bleak, topical novel is a substantial achievement and a welcome addition to the slim canon of New Zealand crime fiction" Paul Thomas, New Zealand Herald