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.

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

Early life Gentill was born in Sri Lanka. She was raised in Zambia and Brisbane, Australia.

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 wrote a fantasy adventure series called The Hero Trilogy.