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.
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.
Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem spoke to Melbourne author Kylie Orr for the April Murder Monday. Kylie has two much-praised novels to her credit – Someone Else’s Child, and now The Eleventh Floor which has a fabulous tagline, “The view is a killer…”.
DS Gemma Woodstock is in her home town on maternity leave but when a body is stolen from the local morgue she is drawn in to the case.
Jack’s back. He’s investigating the blackmail of superstar soccer player, Luca Bruni. Jack unearths more than he bargained for, something far more deadly.
Taken hostage at her job in a halfway house for violent offenders, who does Lou trust? The elderly legless rockstar paedophile? The mum and dad killer? Someone else?
Imagine the death penalty is back. Then imagine if the victim’s family want the perpetrator to die they have to do it themselves. Would you?
True Crime
Megan Norris tells nine heartbreaking stories about children murdered by their fathers.
If most men say they’re one of the good guys, then why are so many women afraid to walk alone at night?
A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. Detective Kate Miles is back and is faced with conflicts very close to home.
For the April Crime Stack, HQ Fiction has kindly offered 20 copies of The Accident, by award-winning Geelong writer, Fiona Lowe. The Crime Stack is a benefit for Sisters in Crime members. Every month there are 20 books to win in a random draw of members. Join now and be in the running for a complimentary paperback copy of The Accident, a ripper read.
The scene of the crime is all important for Lee Christine. Her three novels in her Snowy Mountains crime trilogy, Charlotte Pass, Crackenback, and Dead Horse Gap are set in and around the small towns and ski resorts of New South Wales, an area she was very familiar with. So, when it was time to pick up her pen or her next novel, Glenrock, she felt it was important to give her readers a strong sense of place once again – this time in the region around Newcastle that has changed enormously since the closure of BHP twenty-five years ago.