Crime writer breaks into major league with winning tale

Another white Australian, this time writing books with a Chinese-Australian as the central character.

Along with his first novel, Dead Set, it features the Chinese-Australian AFP Detective Inspector Brad Chen, who is investigating the double murder of a Whitlam government minister and a book editor working on the former minister's tell-all memoirs.

Canberra Times

Huh?  Haven't read it so no comment.  It has won an award so it must be 'good'.