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: Helen Garner Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to …
Author: Sophie McKenzie Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Copyright © Rosefire) Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: Julia has always been the friend that Livy turns to when life is difficult. United fifteen years ago by grief at the brutal murder of Livys sister, Kara, they’ve always told each other everything, So when …
Author: Lisa Unger Publisher: Simon &Schuster Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Lesley Vick and Anne Elizabeth Bruist Book Synopsis: Love hurts. Sometimes it even kills… Darkness has a way of creeping up when Ian is with Priss. Even when they were kids, playing in the woods of their small Upstate New York town, he could …
Author: Anna George Publisher: Penguin Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Anne Elizabeth Buist Book Synopsis: ‘My name is David James Forrester. I’m a solicitor. Tonight, at 6.10, I killed my wife. This is my statement.’ In Melbourne’s inner west, David sits in his car, dictaphone in hand. He’s sick to his stomach but determined to …
Author: Caroline Overington Publisher: Random House Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Anne Elizabeth Bruist Book Synopsis: The year is 1999, and Lachlan Colbert – Colby – has the world at his feet. He’s got a big job on Wall Street and a sleek bachelor pad in the heart of Manhattan. With money no object, he …
Author: Alafair Burke Publisher: Harper Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Anne Elizabeth Buist Book Synopsis: A murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads a young defense lawyer and an NYPD homicide detective into parallel investigations with explosive and deadly results in this superb mystery. The latest story dominating the tabloids – the …
Author: Louise Welsh Publisher: John Murray Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: A Lovely Way to Burn is the first book in the Plague Times trilogy. A pandemic called ‘The Sweats’ is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie …
Author: Lucie Waterhouse Publisher: Bloomsbury Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: A whirlwind romance. A picture-perfect marriage. Hannah Reilly has seized her chance at happiness. Until the day her husband doesn’t come home … Hannah, independent, headstrong and determined not to follow in the footsteps of her bitterly divorced mother, has always …
Author: Gabrielle Lord Publisher: Hachette Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Detective-Inspector Debra Hawkins has domestic violence in her sights. But as head of a new police unit targeting violence against women, she has hit a wall of silence. How can she help Rana al-Sheikly, a young woman who yearns for the …
Author: Lynda La Plante Publisher: Simon & Schuster Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: ‘Please don’t let anything bad to have happened to her, please don’t let anything to have happened to my baby……’ Marcus and Lena Fulford are the envy of their friends. Wealthy, attractive and successful, the couple, with their …