Rozzi Bazzani
Crafting Unforgettable Stories
Hi I’m Rozzi. I write the Detective Sergeant Rebecca Harpin crime series and time shift mysteries. You can read all about them here.
About Me
I have written scripts, libretti and songs for the theatre including two stage musicals. I was a regular contributor to the Arts pages of the largest circulation newspaper in Australia.
Before writing full time I worked as a session singer in recording studios. I performed live on stages across Australian and internationally and used my voice for both spoken and sung commercial work. I backed some of Australia’s best known singers and supplied voices for anything from soap to sunglasses, face cream to dog food.
After returning to study and graduating from Melbourne University where I majored in Romance languages, Linguistics and Fine Arts, my love of reading and history inspired my first book, ‘Hector.’ A fully researched biography of Australian TV mogul Hector Crawford.
After that my love of fiction won out and in 2021 ‘The Piano Woman’ a time shift mystery romance was published, followed soon after by the first in a crime series, ‘Making Up Amanda’ featuring Detective Sergeant Rebecca (Bec) Harpin, and ‘One Night’ the second book in that series.
In 2026 the third book in the Bec Harpin series will be published called,”Shooting Reality’.
I live in Ballarat Victoria, with my husband and two big poodles and you can often catch me walking the track around Lake Wendouree considering the plot for my next book.
About My Books
The Piano Woman
Reeling from the break up of her ‘forever’ romance, writer Maddison Browne is trying to rebuild her life and get her successful career back on track.
But when a letter arrives from an English lawyer telling her that she is to inherit a piano from a great grandmother she didn’t know existed, everything she’d ever believed about her life is turned upside down.
Travelling to Kent to explore this unknown connection Maddison is forced to use all her research skills to unearth a century old secret that threatens to shatter the lives of her newly discovered family.
Can Maddison find a way to save the family she never knew and even find a new life for herself in the process?
Making Up Amanda
A Cold Case
Ballarat, 1988. After a normal day of filming, movie star Amanda King got into a car outside her hotel and was never seen again.
A Cop Who Can't Forget
DI Tom Burn was a young officer at the time King went missing. Burnt out and close to retirement, Burn finds himself drawn back into the case that has haunted him his whole career when hot shot police officer DS Rebecca Harpin arrives in town to head a new investigation.
A Daughter Who Can't Let Go
Marianna Del Re has given up everything to find out why her mother vanished from the film-set all those years ago. She arrives in town looking for her own answers as the police begin to investigate three other cases involving missing women. When Marianna starts digging and exposes long held secrets about the night her mother disappeared, and when those secrets collide with the current investigation, Harpin and Burn must race against the clock to uncover the shocking truth before the killer strikes again.
One Night
One Night
When Detective Sergeant Bec Harpin answers a call for help from her friend, barrister Carolyn Moorhouse, she suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of an investigation that threatens to derail her career. Not only does Bec have to decide how far she’ll go for a friend, but she must also decide if her friend is guilty of a crime.
Two Bodies
On the same night, a body is discovered bound and gagged in a small unit in suburban Melbourne, and Bec and her team are faced with two separate investigations.The situation is complicated by startling revelations from the dead woman’s neighbour, actor Nikki Cardone, a woman seeking her own justice from wrongdoing. But is Nikki the grieving actor she seems, or is she one of the perpetrators?
Three Crimes
While Bec closes in on answers, and Nikki races against time to clear her name, the two women must find their separate ways to the truth.
The question is, can they both succeed?
Hector
Hector Crawford - the name remains synonymous with Australian television. The tag line This has been a Crawford Production still resonates with generations of Australians who grew up with his cops, the Sullivan family or any of the long line of productions that flowed from his legendary company.
Hector’s public facade is part of our collective memory but the man behind it, and how his passion and determination changed Australian culture forever is revealed in Hector.
A vivid account of how, as Crawford’s influence grew, the off-screen politics employed by the TV networks to diminish his company’s power became as exciting as any of his on-screen dramas.
Launching Hector
Wheelers Hill Library Book Talk
I'm absolutely thrilled to chat about my books! If I can squeeze it into my schedule, I'd be more than happy to accept any invitation to discuss them!
Launching One Night at the BMI
With Crawford Productions Legend Ian Jones
Reading Making Up Amanda for Audio Book Release
Interviewing the lovely Nicole Alexander
Delighted to be standing between two TV Legends Gerard Kennedy and Terence Donovan who helped launch Hector
