It was the book every commuter seemed to have in their hands in 2015. A tautly written psychological thriller with lashings of Hitchcock and Agatha Christie, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Trainexplored society’s voyeuristic impulses, alcoholism and the disconcerting unreliability of memory. Even more riveting than The Girl on the Train, though, is the …
Get a taste of Sisters in Crime’s 10th Law Week event on Friday 20 May, 6pm. John Silvester interviewed two of the speakers – Soren Blau, a forensic anthropologist, and Yeliena Baber, a forensic pathologist – for his Naked City column in Saturday’s Age, 14 May. Soren and the third speaker, Lyndall Smythe, a forensic …
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2016 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless. Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up in a local dump. Still haunted by her last run-in with a serial killer, Cass Lehman is trying hard to focus on the future. That’s not easy when …
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2013 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis The youngest in a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents, Cass is cursed with the not-so-sexy gift of seeing the past… but not just any past; she sees death. Fo years she’s hidden herself away in her family home. Now desperate for a better …
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2014 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis Moving to the city, Cass Lehman hoped to leave her recent notoriety behind her. Her ability to experience the final moments of a violent death helped the local police capture a serial killer, but also meant she was almost his final victim… With a place …
All beginner, Advanced and published female crime writers are warmly welcome to join our group of friendly Queensland Sisters in Crime members at our June meeting: When: Saturday, 4 June 2016 Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm Where: ‘Berkley’s on Ann’ Address: Adina Apartment Hotel ANZAC Square Brisbane ~ Corner of Ann & Edward Streets, 255 Ann St, …
Newly-minted crime authors Janice Simpson and Aoife Clifford enthralled (and amused) a large audience talking about their books, Murder at Mt Martha (Hybrid press) and All These Perfect Strangers (Simon & Schuster) to Sisters in Crime in Melbourne on 29 April. Under the gentle interrogation of Sisters in Crime national convenor, Maggie Baron, they revealed …
Convenor Val Marsden provided this recent update on Sisters in Crime WA. Our chapter is a reading group that began not long after Sisters in Crime Australia was established in Melbourne. We first met in Perth in 1993 and have been meeting regularly, on the last Friday of every month, ever since. We meet in …
Publisher: Text Publishing Company COPYRIGHT & YEAR: Louise Welsh, 2010 REVIEWER: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Synopsis Professor Murray Watson is rather a sad sack. His family, his career, his affair…not even drinking offers much joy. All his energies are now focused on his research into Archie Lunan, a minor poet who drowned 30 years ago off a …
PUBLISHER: G.P. Putman’s Sons COPYRIGHT & YEAR: Sue Grafton,2015 REVIEWER: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines REVIEW: Sue Grafton has been writing the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, also termed ‘the alphabet series’, since 1982, producing about a novel per year. All previous books in the alphabetically inspired titles have included a crime related word—‘A Is for Alibi’, ‘B …