THE SCARLET CROSS
Available now in bookstores across AustraliaPlease support your local bookstores to purchase The Scarlet Cross. If it is not available yet in your own country, or you can’t find it in retail stores, you contact Pantera Press >
'A tightly-woven plot, complex and intriguing characters and suspense that builds to fever pitch before delivering one last sucker punch. An original and compelling journey into self harm, mental illness, the role of carers and how power corrupts.’
Loraine Peck, Author of The Second Son
BIO
Lyn McFarlane is a Canadian-Australian author who splits her time between Sydney, Australia and Vancouver Island. She’s a former freelance journalist and holds degrees in economics, journalism and law. Lyn is a member of the Australian Society of Authors and the Crime Writers of Canada, a graduate of The Faber Academy and a mentee with the Australian Writers’ Mentorship Program. Her debut novel The Scarlet Cross won the 2019 Arthur Ellis “Unhanged” award for best unpublished manuscript, sponsored by the Crime Writers of Canada and Toronto’s Dundurn Press.
NOTICES + UPDATES
April 2022
The Scarlet Cross is available in bookstores throughout Australia and for purchase through Pantera Press.
March 2021
Pantera Press acquires world rights to The Scarlet Cross .
May 2019
Lyn McFarlane wins the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis “Unhanged” Prize (Best Unpublished Manuscript) for her debut novel The Scarlet Cross