Sara Hood
The Davitt Awards (long) shortlist is here! nine adult novels, five Young Adult (YA) novels, six children’s novels and five non-fiction books. Twelve books from all categories are competing for the debut award. Altogether, 127 books have been in contention.
Frock (or suit) up and join us for an à la carte dinner as we present Sisters in Crime’s annual Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women published in 2020. 28 August at the Rising Sun, South Melbourne. Booking essential
Every month Sisters in Crime brings you new reviews from women who write criminally good books.
The Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Competition was officially launched at the Athenaeum Library. Carmel was on hand with the camera!
Vikki Petraitis, Karina Kilmore, Narrelle M Harris and Ilsa Evans investigate how to get away with murder. ONLINE recording.
A quick round up of all the criminality that Sisters in Crime is up to this month.
The last decades of the eighteenth century were explosive and the reverberations are felt even now. Belinda Lyons-Lee ventures upon a subject that others have treated fictionally.
Crafting a fine short story is a skill perhaps more closely akin to poetry writing than novel writing. However, success in short fiction can be a predictor of quality book-length work, and I’m happy to report this is the case with Suzanne Frankham’s developing career as an author following her first career in science. After …
Written with care, You Had It Coming reveals the impact of sexual violence as it ripples through everyone it touches. Carroll’s care and skill also bring this distressing story towards a place of hope and healing. I recommend it highly. BM Carroll’s You Had It Coming hits the ground running with a Sydney ambulance being …
Disgraced former lawyer Clementine Jones is on the shores of paradise—Queensland’s Great Sandy Straits—trying to outrun her past. Clementine (Clem) Jones, the creation of Queensland-based author Sarah Thornton, is a former corporate attorney left remorseful and unemployed following an error of judgement that saw her gaoled. In Lapse (2019), Thornton’s debut novel, Clem’s leadership and problem-solving skills …