Celebrities: Tara Moss - Murder, She Writes

Tara Moss (born October 2, 1973; Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian-Australian author and former model. She was on the cover of the October 2007 issue of Spanish Playboy, and posed again for the American version in 2010.
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Moss took up residence in Australia in 1996 and currently resides in Sydney and Los Angeles where her novels are being adapted for the screen. She holds both Canadian and Australian citizenship and has held licenses as a private investigator and race car driver (CAMS), and holds a motorcycle license and wildlife/snake handling license. Moss has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children since 2000. She has been honoured with a bronze star on the Australian Walk of Fame as the first person inducted for services to literature.
She is married to Australian poet and philosopher Dr. Berndt Sellheim. Moss gave birth to a daughter, Sapphira, on 22 February 2011.
Her books are published in 17 countries in 11 languages and include the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed crime novels Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, and Siren. In November 2010 her sixth novel The Blood Countess was published as the first in a new paranormal fiction series featuring Pandora English. She hosts the true crime series 'Tough Nuts - Australia's Hardest Criminals' on the Crime & Investigation Network, and 'Tara Moss In Conversation' on 13th STREET Universal channel. She previously hosted the crime documentary series Tara Moss Investigates on the National Geographic Channel shown across Europe and in Australia/New Zealand. She is known for her in-depth novel research which has included touring the FBI and LAPD, shooting firearms, being set on fire, being choked unconscious by Ultimate Fighter 'Big' John McCarthy, flying with the RAAF and spending time in morgues and courtrooms and earning her Certificate III as a private investigator at the Australian Security Academy.

Novels

Fetish (1999)
Split (2002)
Covet (2004)
Hit (2006)
Siren (2009)
The Blood Countess (2010)
The Spider Goddess (2011)