Malicious Intent (2004) is a crime novel by Australian author Kathryn Fox.

It won the Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel and was shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards – Best First Novel in 2005.

[1][2][3] Pathologist and forensic physician, Dr Anya Crichton, discovers a link between the death of a teenage girl from a drug overdose and a number of apparent suicides.

Philippa Stockley in The Washington Post called the novel "Oddball but brilliant".

[4] Sophie Groom in Australia reviewed it as well[5]