Chip Bowring Michie has been a journalist all her working life. She started on The Star Newspaper in Johannesburg.
Later, when her children were born, she became magazine features writer for Garden and Home.

After completing her BA at Wits University, she became features editor if Living and Loving Magazine, in l978. Other
national magazines, as features editor, followed.

To steep herself in the industry in l989 she became an advertising and promotions editor. In l991 she dropped out
of writing altogether after a severe bout of encephalitis almost destroyed her writing ability.

As a Charter Practitioner in public relations, she worked at an historically black university, the University of
the North, between l993 and l996. She helped to found the School of Communications to assist graduates gain
work in communication posts.

On November 1, 1999 Chip and her CA (SA) husband founded The Investment Centre cc, an investment advisory brokerage
for South African and offshore investors. They were top performers within l8 months, and have remained so for the
past seven years.

On February 20, 2004, a friend of Chip’s two daughters, Beth Tomlinson, was brutally murdered in Cape Town. When
the police were unable to trace a perpetrator, Chip contacted Christian Botha. She did not, however, have enough
money to pay him to start an investigation. Chip suggested to Christian that she write a book about some of the
cases from his files.

Zebra press were interested, commissioned the book and it was published just before Christmas.

All the proceeds will go towards finding Beth Tomlinson's killer or killers.

CONTACT:

Address: P O Box 665, Somerset West, 7129 South Africa
Phone: 021 851 9248
Fax: 086 510 1290
E-Mail: chipmichie@iafrica.com