Andrew Rule has been telling true stories for more than 45 years. He started as a reporter in a Victorian country newspaper in the 1970s and went on to work for some of Australia's biggest news publications: The Age, the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun and a national magazine.

He is known for writing about crime and its detection but has also covered global events from the Olympics to the Christchurch earthquake, a Papua New Guinea military coup, the Bali nightclub bombing and Japan's catastrophic tsunami. He has written and co-written many books ranging across subjects from horseracing to serious biographies, but most often about crime. He is currently an associate editor with News Corp.

John Silvester and Andrew Rule have broken, covered or followed the biggest crime stories in Australia since the 1980s.

They co-authored the Underbelly series of books that inspired the landmark television drama of the same name, as well as the Chopper series that led to the cult international feature film starring Eric Bana.

Silvester is senior crime editor with Fairfax media. Rule is associate editor with the Melbourne Herald Sun.

Silvester appears weekly on Victoria's top-rating 3AW breakfast show and Rule is a regular contributor to the MMM FM network in Melbourne and Adelaide and is host of a new crime podcast, Good Cop Bad Cop to be launched in June.