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 Fitzgerald Publisher: Faber and Faber Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-571-25437-8 Review By: Kate McIver Book Synopsis: Just after her sixteenth birthday, Will’s daughter Georgie suffers kidney failure. She needs a transplant but her type is rare. Will, a single dad who’s given up everything to raise his twin daughters, offers to be a …
Author: Rochelle Jackson Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781742372556 Review By: Karen Chisholm and Vikki Petraitis Book Synopsis: What attracts women to dangerous men? For Georgina Freeman (married to illegal casino king George Freeman), Ann-Marie Presland (girlfriend of organised crime figure Bob Trimbole), Fran Stratford (partner of murderer Billy ‘The Texan’ Longley), …
Author: Alex Marwood Publisher: Sphere Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84744-520-9 Review By: Gayl O’Connor Book Synopsis: Twenty-five years ago two little girls were imprisoned for murder. Now journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young women and her investigation leads her to cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it …
Author: Penny Matthews Publisher: Penguin Group (Australia) Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 978 0 14 301148 4 Review By: Gayl O’Connor Book Synopsis: This heartbreaking story is based on real events that took place more than a century ago, capturing headlines all around Australia. This fictional account of those events is written from the point of …
Author: Lara Morgan Publisher: Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd Copyright Year: 2010 ISBN: 978 1 921529 39 9 Review By: Virginia Jane Rose Book Synopsis: Five hundred years into the future, in the post-polar-melt city of Newperth divided along rigid class lines ruled by the security-fixated “Senate”, teenage Rosie Black who plans to be an …
Author: Claire Corbett Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-74237-556-4 No of Pages: 420 Price: $32.99 Review By: Sue Nankervis Book Synopsis: The dream of being able to fly is now a physical reality, but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs and gene manipulation to become fliers. Peri, a …
Author: Simone Van Der Vlught ; Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: Copyright 2005, English language translation copyright 2010 ISBN: 978121656330 Review By: Susan Woldenberg Butler Book Synopsis: Lydia has her life in order and opinions on everything, from her husband’s business to her twin sister’s friends, to her …
Author: Elizabeth Haynes Publisher: Text Publishing Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781921922541 Review By: Susan Woldenberg Butler Book Synopsis: Into the Darkest Corner,the stunning debut from Elizabeth Haynes is an edgy and powerful psychological thriller that asks the most terrifying questions: What if the man you love isn’t who you thought he was? What if he …
Author: Karen Rose Publisher: Headline Copyright Year: 2011 Review By: Kelly Marshall Book Synopsis: Baltimore homicide detective J.D. Fitzpatrick has seen a lot of horrific violence both as a cop and during his deployment in Afghanistan, but nothing like the trail of tortured bodies turning up throughout the city. He’s up against a brutal killer …
Author: Lili Wilkinson Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 9781742376196 Review By: Sue Bursztynski Book Synopsis: Bee is spending her summer holidays working in the taxidermy department of the Melbourne Museum of Natural History before beginning Year 12. She has enough problems on her plate, what with her best friend running off with …