Sisters in Crime Australia is dedicated to promoting women who write crime. Here are reviews of crime books (fiction and true crime) written by women.
If you wish to submit a book for review or be a reviewer, see the Contacts page for information.
Author: R.A. Spratt Publisher/Year: Puffin/2018 Publisher Blurb Three squabbling siblings. One all too perfect next-door neighbour. A missing mum, a bumbling dad, a kooky cockroach mystery and an eccentric country town. What could possibly go wrong? Life is hard enough without having to spend time with your siblings. But there is no other way for …
Author: Maryrose Cuskelly Publisher/Year: Allen & Unwin/2018 Publisher Synopsis The story of a grisly triple murder in Central Victoria in October 2014 – contemporary Australian true crime at its best ‘An ugly story told beautifully. WEDDERBURN will hold you tightly in its grip, and leave an imprint when it lets you go.’ Myfanwy Jones ‘In …
Author: Martha Grimes Publisher/Year: Atlantic/2018 Publisher Synopsis In the new mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series, Martha Grimes brings London’s finest and ‘the Filth’ together on a double-homicide case that involves Kenyan art, rare gems, astrophysics and a long-fermented act of revenge. Robbie Parsons is one of London’s finest, a black cab driver who …
Author: Rachael Brown Publisher/Year: Scribe 2018 Publisher Synopsis The riveting inside story of a journalist’s cold-case investigation of a shocking murder Every cop has a case that dug its claws in and would not let go. For veteran detective Ron Iddles, it was his very first homicide case — the 1980 murder of single mother …
Author: Kate Lyons Publisher/Year: Allen & Unwin/2018 Publisher Blurb In 1979, at the age of fourteen, Ray McCullough ran away from his home on a western New South Wales sheep property following a violent confrontation with his dad, Jim McCullough. He left behind his mother, Delly, and his sisters, Ursula and Tilda. Now forty-one, Ray …
Author: Jennifer Hillier Publisher/Year: Corvus (An imprint of Atlantic Books)/2018 Publisher Synopsis Aged just 16, Geo’s best friend Angela disappeared without a trace. Years later, Angela’s body is discovered in the woods near Geo’s childhood home, revealed as yet another victim of the notorious serial killer Calvin James. Geo’s high-school boyfriend. For fourteen years, Geo …
Author: Candice Fox Publisher/Year: Penguin/2019 Publisher Blurb Crimson Lake is where bad people come to disappear – and where eight-year-old boys vanish into thin air . . . On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young friends are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when Sara Farrow checks on the …
Author: Kirsten Alexander Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2019 Publisher Blurb ‘They said he was their boy. And so he was . . .’ In 1913, on a summer’s day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy’s mysterious disappearance from the family’s lake house makes front-page …
Author: Fiona McIntosh Publisher/Year: Penguin Random House Australia/2019 Publisher Blurb A spate of seemingly unconnected murders in southern England prompt a high-profile taskforce to be formed and led by DCI Jack Hawksworth, one of the Force’s new rising stars who combines modern methods with old-school instincts. The victims appear as disparate as their style of …
Author: Lynda La Plante Publisher/Year: Allen & Unwin/2019 Publisher Blurb Dolly, Linda, Shirley and Bella are back. And this time it’s a fight to the finish. The sequel to Lynda La Plante’s groundbreaking thriller, Widows. Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull …