Anderson has been a crime reporter for the Herald Sun since 1994, and is currently the paper's longest serving police roundsman. One of the team that won a Walkley Award in 1995 for a special lift-out on the murder of Sheree Beasley, Paul was also head of a team of reporters that won the 2004 Quill Award - Best Deadline Report for a series of stories on the murder of crime patriarch Lewis Moran.

Paul is the author of Dirty Dozen: 12 True Crime Stories that Shocked Australia, Another Dirty Dozen and Shotgun City: Melbourne's Gangland Killings.

Dirty Dozen (Hardie Grant Books - 2003) is a collection of chilling Australian true-crime stories that will draw you inside some of the most intriguing and violent cases on the police books. Dirty Dozen includes a very interesting story about Jason Ryan who was a Crown Witness against his family during the trial of the alleged police killers in the Walsh Street murders trial.

There are also stories about the 1994 robbery of an Armagard van in Richmond which netted what was then an Australian record amount of cash for such a heist and pieces on Russel Street bomber Craig 'Fatty' Minogue and the death of Karmein Chan.

In Shotgun City (Hardie Grant Books - 2004) Anderson takes you through the chilling criminal slayings that have shocked, and continue to shock Melbourne, linking the players and events that make up Melbourne's underworld crime scene. Anderson traces the complicated web back to the Painters & Dockers' Union power struggle that claimed at least forty lives between the 1950s and the early 1980s, and delves into the more recent wave of murders that have seen Melbourne become a virtual criminal killing field.

Another Dirty Dozen (Hardie Grant Books - 2005) is a shocking reveal-all which deconstructs twelve of Australia's most intriguing and hideous crime cases. A follow-up to his bestselling Dirty Dozen, this chilling piece of work is a true fly-on-the-wall account of today's world of crime and punishment.

What's inside:

· The Mum in the Boot Case: for the first time, read the entire story of the tragic death of Maria Korp - the woman at the centre of the 'Mum in the Boot Investigation'

· The Mornington Monster: understand a family's pain as the 'Mornington Monster', John Sharpe, admits to murdering his wife and daughter before dumping them in a windswept landfill

· Go inside the kitchen corridor of a Melbourne restaurant as local identity Dominic Gatto shoots suspected underworld hitman Andrew Veniamin in self-defence

· And many more stories guaranteed to shock.

True crimes tales from an insider, Another Dirty Dozen is a must-read for anyone fascinated by true crime.