Vikki Petraitis
Vikki Petraitis is an Australian true crime author, based in Melbourne, Victoria. She was nominated for the 2007 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for her book Forensics. In 2007, Petraitis won the Scarlet Stiletto Award for Best New Talent for a fiction piece she wrote called 'Side Window'.Books
- The Phillip Island Murder, 1994, Kerr Publishing
- Victims, Crimes and Investigators, 1995, Victoria Press
- The Frankston Murders, 1996, Nivar Press
- The Great John Coleman, 1998, Nivar Press
- Rockspider, April 2000, Hybrid Publishers
- On Murder II – Edited by Kerry Greenwood, Black Inc, 2002
- Cops – True stories from Australian Police, 2006, The Five Mile Press
- Forensics – true stories from Australian Police Files, 2007, The Five Mile Press
- "The Frankston Murders and The Paedophile Witch" in Outside the Law, 2008, The Five Mile Press
- Crime Scene Investigations – more stories from the Australian Police Files, 2009, The Five Mile Press
- Once a Copper: The life and times of Brian "The Skull" Murphy, 2018, Wild Dingo Press
- Inside the Law: 25 Years of True Crime Writing, 2019, Clan Destine Press
