Best Holiday Reads 2021-2022
2022 looms and don’t we deserve some reading pleasure? We asked several of the Sisters to recommend their book of the year and here they are!
Carmel Shute
Turning a (Private) Eye: An Interview with Carmel Shute by Madison Scott
Historically, the crime genre has been dominated by men, “men with big egos who framed themselves as men with big dicks solving crime,” laughs Carmel.
The Detectives (Series 1 and Series 2) – TV Review by Siobhan Mullany
This extraordinary series, now available on ABC iView, is a must-see for crime writers. It is so beautifully filmed and edited that it is hard to believe it is reality TV, not staged.
Women crime writers in 21st-century Italy: Mirna Cicioni
There are two main differences between Italian and Australian women’s crime fiction. In Italian texts, murders are mostly motivated by jealousy or greed, and on the whole, there is less emphasis on family violence and on rape than in Australian fiction. The other noticeable difference is the emphasis on linguistic and cultural identity in the various Italian regions.
Frayed (Series Two): TV Review by Siobhan Mullany
Put together the bad behaviour of The Young Ones, 80s’ fashion and Newcastle, then add Sarah Kendall’s dialogue – the result is Frayed, primarily a comedy series but with a crime at its centre.
Cop This! View online
Former Victorian Assistant Police Commissioner Sandra Nicholson interrogated Caroline de Costa, Suzanne Frankham, and Margaret Hickey about the police investigations in their novels for Sisters in Crime’s Cop This! event. You can view it now.
Lie After Lie: Siobhan Mullany TV review
Lie After Lie is the TV series that should see us out of lockdown. Twelve hours of viewing, each hour packed with twists and turns, up and downs. Totally addictive.
New rules apply! Sisters in Crime’s Annual General Meeting – Carmel Shute (secretary) reports
Sisters in Crime held its much delayed Annual General Meeting yesterday (30 May) by Zoom. Thanks to the pandemic, it has been a long year since its last AGM – 19 months, in fact – but financial members rallied to the call for a big turnout (a quorum of 10%) to pass the new rules …
Stella Blomkvist: Siobhan Mullany reviews
I enjoyed this Icelandic crime drama but it left me unsettled. It features a tough defence lawyer called Stella Blomkvist. Stella is persistent in trying to get the best for her clients. Her clients have their own agendas and so does Stella. The political angle is fascinating and, almost, believable. The style has cartoon like features …
Working Class Girl: Q&A with Karina Kilmore
Debut author Karina Kilmore drew on her own life and work background to write her debut novel Where the Truth Lies (Simon & Schuster) which centres on a journalist investigating a death on the wharves and the tribal divide between big business, the media and unions. She spoke to Maggie Baron. Q: Hi Karina, firstly …