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.
We Owe So Much to Agatha Christie
Kate Emery’s new book is set at a family beach holiday in Western Australia. My Family and Other Suspects is a mystery where, you know how it happens, there’s a murder and Ruth, the teenage murder mystery fan in the family, decides that she’s the one to investigate. As Kate says, it owes a lot to Agatha Christie.
WIN! Natalie Conyer’s Present Tense
Win a copy of Natalie Conyer’s much acclaimed, Ned Kelly winning debut novel, Present Tense. All members are automatically included in the draw at the end of each month. This is a ripping read set in South Africa, as it desperately tries to find a way forward post-apartheid.
The Last Trace
Best selling psychological thrillers are Petronella McGovern’s beat. She talks with Natalie Conyer about why and how she writes and her latest page turner, The Last Trace – a gripping thriller about siblings and secrets, and the traces we can never erase.
Murder Monday: Sarah Barrie
Sarah Barrie has nine novels under her belt. She cut her teeth on romance but, luckily for us, threw her lot in with crime. Sarah spoke about her literary trajectory to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem for the December Murder Monday. ln a past life, while gaining degrees in arts, science, and education, Sarah worked as a teacher, a vet nurse, a horse trainer, and a magazine editor, before deciding she wanted to write novels.
Deadly pursuits. Ringwood library
Crime and Mystery Unveiled with Vikki Petraitis. Join award-winning author and podcaster Vikki Petraitis as she interviews three of Melbourne’s top crime writers about their latest novels. Discover how crime and mystery unfold across different settings, from the Yorkshire Dales to Melbourne and the Victorian coast. Kirsten Alexander’s After the Fall is a tense tale of new beginnings and hidden …
Sisters in crime Readings Book Launch: Outrageous Fortunes
Join us to celebrate the launch of Lucy Sussex’s and Megan Brown’s Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and Her Criminal Son George (Black Inc). This is the gripping story of Australia’s first female crime writer and her career-criminal son. When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was …
Crime Every Mountain
Women’s crime writing has risen to new heights. It’s left the dry, dusty plains behind and headed for the hills or rather the mountains – with thrilling and chilling consequences. Claire Sutherland (The Crag), Bronwyn Hall (The Chasm), and Erina Reddan (Deep in the Forest) will talk to Leslie Falkiner-Rose, convenor and keen skier, about the challenges they have faced trying to get to the top.
Best holiday reads, 2024-2025
Sisters in Crime invited convenors, author members, Davitt Award judges and winners, and others to nominate their best holiday reads for 2024-2025. As you’ll note, they traverse an extraordinarily wide range of themes, locations, and interests. Some nominations are up-to-the-minute. Others are golden oldies. What they all offer, of course, are hours of reading pleasure and diversion. I loved the passion revealed in the responses. Discover what passed Hazel Edwards’ ‘hot water test’.
A WRECK OF SEABIRDS
When Briony first meets Ren, he is standing in the freezing sea at the edge of their tiny town. Ren hasn’t been home for a decade but has returned to be with his dying father. Briony won’t leave, hoping that Sarah, her missing sister, will one day reappear. This is an extraordinary debut, a story of hope and survival.
LEAVE THE GIRLS BEHIND
The acclaimed author of Before You Knew My Name returns with another taut suspense thriller overlaid with a moving exploration of the ways in which violent crime ricochets through the lives of those left behind.