The Crime Stack: After the Smoke Clears by Kylie Kaden

For the May Crime Stack, Pantera Press has kindly offered 20 copies of After the Smoke Clears by Brisbane-based Kylie Kaden, the best-selling author of One of Us and The Day the Lies Began. A family. A small town. A lifetime of secrets. Would you tell your partner the worst thing you’ve ever done? To be in the running you need to be a member of Sisters in Crime. Why not join now?

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Crime vs mystery: Vanessa McCausland

What’s the difference between a mystery book and a crime book? Is it that, unlike crime novels, mystery novels concern themselves less with a struggle between good and evil and more with the question of who committed a particular crime? Do crime writers often reveal their villain early in the story while mystery writers devote most of their real estate to cracking unsolved cases?

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Murder Monday: Vikki Petraitis

April’s guest is Vikki Petraitis, true crime queen turned international podcast sensation and award-winning crime fiction author. Vikki has a long association with crime, starting with The Phillip Island Murder in 1994. Since then, she has written another 17 true crime books, but last year, she crossed a genre line with her PhD novel, The Unbelieved, which won the inaugural Allen & Unwin Crime Fiction Award and was published in August to much acclaim.

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Murder Monday: Tansy Rayner Roberts

For the latest Murder Monday, Jacq Ellem spoke to author Tansy Rayner Roberts who crimes crime under her pen name Livia Day – they’re cozy, witty, and wickedly funny, Tasmanian murder mysteries. Her five crime novels include A Trifle Dead, Drowned Vanilla, Keep Calm and Kill the Chef, Dyed & Buried, and her most recent title, Drop Dead in Red which features scones, murder, and baby goats.

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