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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
An enthusiastic crowd turned up at Readings Carlton on 6 April to usher Janice Simpson’s debut novel, Murder in Mt Martha, into the world. Steeped in Melbourne’s past and historically accurate, Murder in Mt Martha is inspired by a real-life unsolved murder. Janice Simpson is a Melbourne based writer with a background in university teaching …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Publishers have until Friday April 29 to enter Sisters in Crime Australia’s 16th Davitt Awards for the best crime and mystery books by Australian women. Six Davitt Awards will be presented at a gala dinner in Melbourne in August : Best Adult Novel; Best Young Adult Novel; Best Children’s Novel; Best Non-fiction Book; Best Debut …
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 …
Author: Sulari Gentill Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: “Give the Devil His Due”, the 7th novel in the Rowland Sinclair Mystery Series, begins with a piece of 1927 news from the Richmond River Express and the Casino Kyogle Advertise on the Moroubra Speedway. A concrete bowl race track that despite the banks being …
Congratulations to Caroline Overington, winner of Sisters in Crime’s 2015 Davitt Award (Non-Fiction) for Last Woman Hanged (Harper Collins) http://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460703625/last-woman-hanged on her new job as Associate Editor for The Australian. The appointment is another achievement in Caroline’s already stellar career. She is currently the Associate Editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly and based in Santa …
CANDICE FOX: I’ve always been a pantser, but recently I’ve had to change my entire style as a writer. Flying by the seat of my pants in terms of how I structured plot was how I wrote Hades, Eden and Fall, and there was nothing wrong with that – the process worked for me. When …