Meet Raven Corbin
Hello, mystery lovers.
Pull up a chair. The fire is lit, the candles are burning, and somewhere outside, the Tasmanian wind is howling through the trees. You’re in exactly the right place.
My name is Raven Corbin, and I write atmospheric Gothic mysteries — stories set in places where the past refuses to stay buried, where crumbling buildings hold secrets older than memory, and where the line between what was and what is grows beautifully, dangerously thin.
If you’ve wandered in from the contemporary romance world of Juanita Kees, welcome. You’ll recognise the things I care about most: complex characters, authentic emotion, relationships that feel earned rather than convenient. You’ll just find rather more ghosts in my stories, and somewhat fewer coffee dates.
And if you’ve found me cold — stumbled across this site while hunting for your next mystery obsession — welcome to you, too. You’ve come to exactly the right corner of the internet.
What is this place, and why does it exist?
Every writer carries multiple worlds inside them. Juanita Kees has spent years writing about people finding love and connection in the bright, breathing present tense. I’ve always been the part of her that stares at old photographs a little too long, that wonders about the woman in the portrait whose eyes follow you across the room, that reads local history books and thinks: but what really happened?
What you can expect from me:
• Stories that take a real, specific, historically grounded place — Tasmania, and one extraordinary forgotten town called Bitterport — and treat it with the seriousness its history deserves. Tasmania has a colonial past that is by turns remarkable, brutal, and deeply strange. The Female Factory system. Convict transportation. The tiny communities that clung to cliff-edges and survived — or didn’t. I find that history irresistible, and I intend to explore it through every book in this series.
• Stories where romance is not an afterthought. I’ve inherited Juanita’s conviction that love — the complicated, slow-building, worthy kind — belongs in every story. My characters will fall for each other while they’re solving murders and outrunning danger, and it will feel absolutely real.
• Stories where women who have been silenced by history finally get to speak. Some of my favourite characters have been waiting a very long time to tell their stories. I take that responsibility seriously.
• Stories where the supernatural is never decorative. If a ghost appears in one of my books, she has something to say and she will not be ignored.
Coming 26 June: Murder at Millmerran House — Book 1 in the Bitterport Mysteries
The first story I have to tell is set in a crumbling Victorian mansion in an almost-abandoned Tasmanian town, and it involves a body in a chimney, a 1945 disappearance, stolen wartime gold, and one of the most formidable women I have ever had the pleasure of writing — even if she has been dead for eighty years.
More details coming soon, including the cover reveal you won’t want to miss.
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Welcome to Bitterport. Mind the shadows.
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