Through A Camel’s Eye is set mainly in Queenscliff on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, a mystery with a strong sense of place, in the small town tradition, contrasting an idyllic setting with the gravity of murder. The story opens with the theft of a camel and the discovery of a black coat in the sand hills, …
A big crowd jammed into Readings Carlton on 2 March for the launch of Aoife Clifford’s debut novel, All These Perfect Strangers, which is being published in March in Australia and in August in the United Kingdom in by Simon & Schuster and in July in the United States by Penguin Random House. Aoife credited …
Why is it that women writers – and women’s writing – continue to be overlooked and undervalued? In 1929, Gray and Munroe first reported a gender gap: women … read more novels … attend more book clubs … make more use of libraries … buy more books … take more creative writing courses … and …
Deadly Debuts: First time crime novelists, Aoife Clifford & Janice Simpson, talk to Sisters in Crime’s Maggie Baron about what makes them and their books tick. Aoife Clifford won the Sisters in Crime’s Scarlet Stiletto Award in 2007 for the first thing she ever wrote and since then has notched up a second prize and …
Sisters in Crime’s first event in Melbourne for 2016 – An Event launch with Kylie Fox and Ruth Wykes for their book, Invisible Women: Powerful and Disturbing Stories of Murdered Sex Workers (Echo Publishing) – sold out in a day. A capacity crowd – including a group of local street sex workers – packed out …
In case you missed Jane Cadzow’s wonderful article from Good Weekend, on 16 January 2016, here it is: “Donna Leon and the madness of Venice” Millions of readers, including our own PM, have fallen for mystery novelist Donna Leon’s blockbuster Commissario Brunetti series. But it’s not her proudest achievement. Donna Leon steps out of the …
Liane Moriarty, who won Sisters in Crime’s 15th Davitt Award (Best Adult Novel) this year for Big Little Lies, has a new role – producer of the series of her book which has Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon as executive producers at HBO, following a bidding war with Netflix. The two actors also have starring roles …
Catch up with Michael MacKenzie’s interview with Scarlet Stiletto winner T J Hamilton on Radio National’s RN Afternoons on 1 December: Crime writing continues to be a growth industry in publishing, as our appetite for fictional violence, murder and torture seems insatiable, however it’s a pretty big leap from writing erotic bodice rippers to Jack …
T.J. Hamilton, a cop-turned-crime writer from regional Queensland, has won the Every Cloud Productions First Prize ($1500) in Sisters in Crime Australia’s 22nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards for her short story “Hard Knox” about a woman who has apparently jumped from a high-rise housing commission block in Redfern. Hamilton also won the coveted stiletto trophy, a scarlet …
Sulari Gentill was interrogated at Readings Hawthorn on 9 November by fellow author and Sister in Crime Angela Savage for a gripping and often hilarious 40 minutes about her latest book, Give the Devil His Due, the 7th Rowland Sinclair mystery. If you missed the event (and lots did), catch up with Marc McEvoy article …