Annual General Meeting 2026
Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting of Sisters in Crime Australia Inc. (ABN 52 728 423 463) will be held on:
Friday, 16 October 2026, at 9.45 pm at The Rising Sun Hotel, 2 Raglan Street, South Melbourne, 3205. (Following the Comfort of Cosy Crime event). More details: AGM
Queensland Chapter: Small Towns, Big Secrets – An Online Panel with three extraordinary authors
Free online panel hosted by Harrie Blake and Sisters in Crime Queensland with acclaimed authors Angie Faye Martin, Nikki Mottram, and Samantha Ross.
Red Herrings
Catch up with the latest crime events from around the nation. Already there are lots of crime events happening, especially in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Whatever the time, whatever the season, don’t forget that a book is the perfect gift. It offers so much reading pleasure as well as supporting authors and the publishing industry.
The comfort of cosy crime
Sick of gore? Feel like the world has gone to hell in a handbasket? Cosy crime offers much needed comfort.
Win a copy of Gone Guru
For the Crime Stack in September, Fremantle Press is generously donating twenty copies of Gone Guru, the debut novel by Nadine Browne.
A sister at your back is worth a hundred men: Shannon Kelly-White
Author of ‘Billie King,’ Shannon Kelly-White on women in the background of Australian history and why a sister at your back is worth a hundred men.
Hitting the ground running: Patricia Wolf
Berlin-based author, Patricia Wolf, is on a roll, having produced five outstanding crime novels since 2023. Berlin is a long way from Mt Isa where she grew up, but communicating with her fans via Instagram helps, she tells Robyn Walton.
Case files: life in the police force, with former detectives Kelly Clarke and Debbie Shearer
Come along and hear interesting case studies from the lives of former Detectives and Sergeants Kelly Clarke (ex SAPOL) and Debbie Shearer (ex-Lothian and Borders Police, Scotland).
Cut a long story short
Grabbing a copy of Scarlet Stiletto: The Seventeenth Cut (ed. Phyllis King), the e-book collection of winning stories in the recent 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards, is the perfect answer to reading quandaries. Fourteen ripper reads for only $5.
New Reviews
Every month Sisters in Crime brings you new reviews from women who write criminally good books.