Closing 31 August: 28th Scarlet Stiletto Awards with a record $11,910 in prize money
Sisters in Crime’s 28th Scarlet Stiletto Awards for best short crime and mystery stories is now open and offering a record $11,910 in prizes this year.
Finding the creative trigger: Catherine Jinks
Multi published, multi award winning Catherine Jinks talks to Robyn Walton about writing, the creative trigger and how she wrote her current book.
Historical research ‘a kind of haunting’: Jacquie Pham
When you write novels set in the past, what is historical research? Jacquie Pham says ‘it’s a kind of haunting’. She explains more….
Desperate times, desperate measures
Homelessness, financial crises, bad decisions, and family secrets can make for desperate times requiring desperate measures – even murder. Authors Michelle Prak, Samantha Byres, and Anna Snoekstra will chew over the issues with fellow author, Ilsa Evans.
CUCKOO
When Claire surprises her fiancé, Noah, at work for their anniversary, she’s the one who ends up being shocked to her core …
Because Noah left the company nine months ago, and she had no idea. How can she not have known?
A gripping psychological thriller.
BURNING MOUNTAIN
Darcy Tindale’s debut, The Fall, was shortlisted for the 2024 Davitt Awards. In Burning Mountain, Detective Rebecca Giles investigates the discovery of a human skull; a cold case that her career policeman father couldn’t solve 20 years ago.
THIS IS NOT A GAME
Mimi is 77. She and her granddaughter are at a neighbours charity auction when a storm hits. While they’re stuck in the mansion the host is murdered. In this delightful ‘closed-room mystery, Mimi and Addie set out to investigate. Then a second body turns up.
AFTER THE FALL
A Melbourne woman moves across the world to escape a toxic marriage. She starts a new life in Yorkshire, makes friends in this safe, small community. Then a. bomb explodes.
Win a copy!
Allen & Unwin is generously donating 20 copies of Lyrebird by Sydney writer, Jane Caro, for the May Crime Stack. Sue Turnbull, reviewer and Sisters in Crime ambassador says, “It’s hard to imagine a more Australian premise for a crime novel than that of Lyrebird.”
Murder Monday: Emylia Hall
Best-selling UK author, Emylia Hall, spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem for the April Murder Monday. She lives in Bristol where she writes in a hut in the garden and dreams of the sea.
THE PROSPECT
This book is a bit of a departure for Fleur McDonald. While her Detective Dave Burrows books are excellent, they can be of a slightly more gentle nature than The Prospect. This book is an all-out, gritty crime novel. It is Outback Noir at its finest.