Donna Leon talks to Phillip Adams, a great fan, on Radio National

Watching the Detective: Commissario Guido Brunetti cherishes his food, his glass of wine, his smart and acerbic wife, Paola, and many of the sceptical detectives he works with. He’s an intensely civilised character steering his way through the bureaucracy and corruption of Venice – and solving the occasional crime along the way. With Brunetti, author …

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Flicks4Chicks International Film Contest

Enter the Flicks4Chicks international film contest and you can literally change the script and write your own. The contest is part of the Different Faces/Different Voices Film Festival developed by Harvard Square Script Writers in collaboration with Women in Film and Video/New England. The contest invites anyone from anywhere in the world to make a …

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Aoife Clifford on Radio National

Can’t wait to hear Aoife Clifford speaking to Sisters in Crime about her debut novel All These Perfect Strangers at the Rising Sun Hotel in South Melbourne, 8pm Friday 29 April? Then catch up with her interview with Anna Frey Taylor on Radio National: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksplus/all-these-perfect-strangers-by-aoife-clifford/7311188

Ann Cleeves, Shetland

Ann Cleeves might be best known for her Vera novels made in to the wonderful series starring Brenda Blethyn. But she has also created another terrific series set in Shetland with a male detective, Jimmy Perez. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for a novel …

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Sulari shortlisted

For the second consecutive year, Sisters in Crime member, Sulari Gentill, has made the Australian Book Industry Awards shortlist for the Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year, this time with Give the Devil His Due. Her publisher, Pantera Press, is understandably excited. “Given that this particular award is associated with non-fiction titles, it is …

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Red Shoes by Angela Savage (2013)

Red shoes according to the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale were the ultimate vanity and cursed the wearer. In the Tom Waits’ song, Red Shoes by the Drugstore, Little Caesar gets caught stealing a diamond ring for his baby all because “he loved the way she looked in those red shoes”. Red shoes, it seems, bring …

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Monty & Me by L A Larkin

Author: Louisa Bennet (aka LA Larkin) Publisher: Avon Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: You might think that dogs can’t understand us…but you’d be wrong. Apart from his obsession with cheese, Monty is actually a very clever animal. So when his beloved master is murdered, Monty decides to use his formidable nose …

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