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.
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Author: Fin J Ross Publisher/Year: Clan Destine Press/2020 Publisher overview Young Fidelia Knight arrives in Melbourne in 1874, alone except for her treasured companion, Samuel Johnson; well, half of him. To escape servitude, Fidelia hides each night in the renowned Coles Book Arcade. She loves words, you see, and wants to know them all. What …
Author: Sally Hepworth Publisher/Year: Pan Macmillan/2019 Publisher overview Someone once told me that you have two families in your life – the one you are born into and the one you choose. Yes, you may get to choose your partner, but you don’t choose your mother-in-law. The cackling mercenaries of fate determine it all. From …
Author: HR Kemp Publisher/Year: H.R. Kemp/H Schuster Publishing/2019 Publisher overview Can ordinary people thwart a powerful conspiracy? Shelley Ormond’s life is about to change forever. Her friend, a young refugee, dies suddenly and the federal police have shrouded her case in secrecy. Shelley has never been bold, but she will have to break the rules …
Author: Kimberley Starr Publisher/Year: Pantera Press/2020 Publisher Overview An explosive, haunting and utterly compelling crime novel about mothers and sons and the ties that bind them. A small Yarra Valley town has been devastated by a bushfire, and Reefton Primary School Principal Phoebe Wharton can’t sleep. She’s the single mother of Caleb who is accused …
Author: Meg Mundell Publisher/Year: University of Queensland Press/2019 Publisher Description Fleeing their pandemic-stricken homelands, a shipload of migrant workers departs the UK, dreaming of a fresh start in prosperous Australia. For nine-year-old Cleary Sullivan, deaf for three years, the journey promises adventure and new friendships; for Glaswegian songstress Billie Galloway, it’s a chance to put …
Author: Adele Ferguson Publisher/Year: ABC Books/Harper Collins Australia/2019 Publisher Description For every person with a bank account Against all the odds, Australia held a royal commission into the banking and financial services industries. Its revelations rocked the nation. Even defenders of the banks were blindsided. Few people were more instrumental in bringing about the commission …
Author: Jess Hill Publisher/Year: Black Inc./2019 Publisher Description Domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four Australian women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn’t she leave? We should be asking: why did he do it? Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts …
Author: Susan Hurley Publisher/Year: Affirm Press/2019 Publisher Description A brilliant young doctor is dead … and someone has to take the blame. Former refugee David Tran becomes the Golden Boy of Australian medical research and invents a drug that could transform immunology. Eight volunteers are recruited for the first human trial, a crucial step on …
Author: Astrid Scholte Publisher/Year: Allen & Unwin/2019 Publisher Description Four Queens. A divided nation. A ruthless pickpocket. A noble messenger. And the murders that unite them. Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington is one of Quadara’s most skilled thieves, but when she steals an unexpectedly valuable package from a messenger she is soon entangled in a conspiracy that …
Author: Jenny Blackford Publisher/Year: Eagle Books, a Christmas Press imprint/2019 Publisher Description Could Maddy’s life get any worse? She’s moved to a scary new house, a scary new school and when her baby brother comes down with a terrible illness Maddy wonders if there’s evil lurking in the shadows. Help comes from an unlikely source …