Endings with possibilities: Téa Cooper
I have to admit to a preference for happy endings! I should probably say ‘endings with possibilities’, after all it makes for a much more rounded character if they have a solid backstory, so why not a future?
Sisters In Crime
The Long Call: TV Review by Siobhan Mullany
A moody drama with the typically bleak British seaside setting. Detective Inspector Matthew Venn is searching for the killer of a man found stabbed on the beach. The personal drama is in the steps towards a potential reconciliation with his mother. A slow burn with subtle acting.
Why Women Kill, Season Two
Season Two retains the high style and witty script. It is very watchable, but it lacks the edge and authenticity of Season One. Overall, suspend disbelief and watch it. Fun story, well told. The clothes are to die for and flattering on the larger figure – a big plus.
Caroline Overington: Tugging at vulnerabilities
Fiction is wonderful, because you can explore people’s motivations, and their back story, and you can make them do this, or that, and not have to worry about sticking to the ‘real’ story which is what you have to do in journalism. I find it very liberating.
Maryrose Cuskelly: Confessions of an accidental crime writer
Maryrose Cuskelly didn’t set out to be a crime writer. She actively avoided it because she says,”I wasn’t sure I had the writing chops for it.” Time has proved her wrong!
Sisters in Crime NSW Kristine Kringle event (or what Sisters in Crime can do for you)
Ann Penhallurick reports on the NSW Chapter’s Christmas event and how it showcased what Sisters in Crime does so well – brings an audience together to hear of, see, taste, and celebrate women’s crime writing in all its many guises.
Murder Monday: Hayley Young
Hayley Young won the 28th Scarlet Stiletto Award for her outback police procedural, “Monster Hunters” – her first stab at crime writing.
The ‘Unlikeable’ Victim: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Love ’em, hate ’em: Melbourne author Laura Elizabeth Woollett says writing unlikeable characters can be cathartic.
Giving a voice to the outback: Fleur McDonald
The day PETA put their Farm Maps up onto the website and animal activists were trespassing onto farms, I was driving to Perth, listening to the ABC report on this atrocity. I was getting angrier and angrier and my speed was getting faster and faster, the more furious I became! I knew I needed to tell the farmer’s side of the story.
Murder Monday: Sara Foster
With the publication of The Hush (HarperCollins Australia) in October 2021, Perth-based author, Sara Foster, has notched up six psychological thrillers. She talked about her career and the craft of writing with Karina Kilmore for November’s Murder Monday.