Tall StoriesNot so much a local history as a lively collection of stories of fascinating people whove lived or travelled here, the Aboriginal people, explorers, artists, the visionaries even a few criminals! This is the only history of the Blue Mountains in print. Michael Duffy writes the best selling Bella Greaves crime novels set in the Blue Mountains.

"When I think of the mean streets — I think of Katoomba

but she has her own problems: she’s turned 60 and her job at the newspaper is under threat

It seems that unwittingly she was responsible for something terrible back then

Plot has some original ideas

In the Blue Mountains

“A four-star crime fiction novel

Paul Ruel was exiled to the Mountains to fade quietly from view

he starts pulling at a thread in an old case — a woman in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit — and the thread leads somewhere people in Katoomba don’t want him to go

“I picked this up in a store in the Blue Mountains

She’s a newspaper editor

Just be careful in the back lanes of Katoomba

and is — if she's honest — just a little bored