Behind the Scenes

"...a renaissance woman with a list of hobbies that would make your hair curl. Tara Moss could very well be Australia's very own Bond girl." - Sky News

Tara hosts crime documentaries each week on 'Tara Moss Investigates', National Geographic Channel, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Romania, Australian and New Zealand, and hosts documentary series on everything from espionage to taboos on National Geographic Presents, Aus/NZ. The behind the scenes photos (right) show Tara on set at the morgue and a hospital for the series.

Snakes alive!: Tara at home with her 7 foot Australian Diamond python, 'Gomez', and with 'Ringo', a carpet python from Healsville Sanctuary on Good Morning Australia (Right). She is also the proud owner of 'Thing', a 5 foot baby Black Headed python, and 'Fester', a 7 foot Coastal Carpet python.

Tara considers hands on research - including experience with sidearms - as part of her job to make scenes in her crime novels authentic. Photo left, Tara handles an M4 automatic at a military range, and photo right, the classic .357 Magnum, seen firing with muzzle flash.

Fly Girl: Tara pulls an impressive 4.2 G's doing aerial manoeuvres over the Sydney Opera House with the Royal Australian Airforce Roulettes. She would like to one day get her pilot licence.

Biker girl: Tara trained at Hart, is a member of Girls Ride Out, Netrider and WIMA and is an ambassador for the Motorcycle Council of NSW. She led the Pink Ribbon Motorycle ride in Victoria in 2005. She is pictured here on her 900cc Triumph Scrambler, and her first bike, a Kawasaki ZZR.

Tara has been a guest and keynote speaker at numerous international writer's festivals, schools and universities.

Tara launches her bestselling thriller novel Split in North America at Book Expo America, and the Canadian Book Expo, 2006. "A bold new female voice for American crime-fiction fans." - Publishers Weekly, USA. Click here to purchase online.

Tara takes in the atmosphere - and skulls - while researching her fifth novel, Siren, at the catacombs in Paris.

The cast of 'The Vagina Monologues' at the Sydney Opera House on VDay 2005 - an international movement to help stop violence against women. The cast which included Corinne Grant, Bec Cartwright, Chloe Maxwell and Mia Freedman, played to a full house. Tara (center) performed, 'My Short Skirt".

Speed Racer: Tara trained at Sandown race course for her CAMS race driver licence, and raced in the BMW Celebrity Grand Prix at Albert Park circuit.

Tara pictured on a visit to the FBI Academy at Quantico for research into her crime novels, which feature criminal profilers and forensic science.

Tara cycled the 9 day, 580km VicRoads Great Victorian Bike Ride in both 2004 and 2005. In addition to cycling up to 114kms in a day, Tara did over 100 media interviews and participated in fundraising events to raise money and awareness for the Bone Marrow Donor Institute for which she donates her time as ambassador.

Tara has narrated the unabridged audio books of each of her four crime novels with the award-winning Bolinda Audio Publishing. Here she breaks up the monotony of hours spent in the studio by having her python Gomez accompany her.

Tara with brilliant Australian crime authors Kathryn Fox and Leigh Redhead at the Sydney launch of Hit, Lynda La Plante, Jeffrey Deaver, Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness hosting the BMDI Red Ball, and with her favourite pop art queen Niagara.

Only 14 years of age and already six-feet tall, Tara nervously catwalks in her first ever fashion show for the local Mayfair Mall in her hometown of Victoria, BC, 1988. "I hid my braces with a closed mouth and tried not to trip". She later went on to work as a top model around the world, gracing over 50 magazine covers, fronting major campaigns and living in New York, Milan, London, Hamburg and Barcelona, before quitting at 25 to pursue full-time crime writing.

Tara shows off her navy league uniform and semaphore flags in the backyard of the family home at age 10, 1984. As a cadet for three years in the Admiral Rayner Cadet Corp she moved her way up to the top rank of Chief Petty Officer, and was awarded Most Outstanding Cadet in 1986.

Newlyweds Robert and Janni Moss in 1967 (left) and Robert Moss with daughters Jackie, and grumpy looking newborn Tara, 1974 (right).

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- Photos used in the intro: Gavin O'Neill and Lucas Allen.
- Website header image of Tara with snake photographed by Tyler Shields. - Copyrights reserved 2007)