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: Josephine Pennicott Publisher: Pan MacMillan Australia Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Diana Olsberg Book Synopsis: This is an enchanting book. Enchanting because of the wonderfully detailed descriptions of life in Sydney and in the nearby Blue Mountains immediately following the end of World War II. But also enchanting because of the carefully unfolding mysteries of the extraordinarily engaging characters …
Author: Felicity Young Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 978 0 7322 9802 9 Review By: Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: The Scent of Murder, the third book in the historical mystery series involving autopsy surgeon Dr Dody McClelland, is a fascinating exploration of the period as well as a very satisfying crime plot. Set in the time of the suffragist movement there …
Author: Livia Day Publisher: Deadlines Copyright Year: 2014 ISBN: 9781922101013 Review By: Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: Drowned Vanillais book two of the Café La Femme series – a culinary crime novel. The ice cream obsessed Tabitha regrets her earlier entanglement with solving crime in A Trifle Dead. She is now focussed on developing all ice cream flavours (except vanilla which everyone …
Author: Helene Young Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Review By: Sandy Curtis Book Synopsis: Northern Heat builds suspense the way the cyclone that threatens Cooktown makes its presence felt – slowly at first, then with tendrils of heat and tension that swirl around the characters, drawing the reader into a world of lies, violence and murder. Conor Woods has …
Author: Megan Morris Publisher: Five Mile Press ISBN: 9781743461266 (pbk) Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Once again, journalist and 2008 Eliminating Violence Against Women Media Award (EVA) winner, Megan Norris turns her skills to writing true crime with the story of the attempted murder of Chris Soteriou. Beginning the story with the attack of Soteriou after his lavish 40th …
Author: Maris Morton Publisher: Odyssey Books Copyright Year: 2014 ISBN: 978-1-922200-08-2 (pbk) Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Maris Morton, winner of the Copywrite Limited Agency (CAL) Scribe Fiction Award in 1910, has written a new novel that incorporates a couple of her past vocations. The story revolves around the heroine Joanna and her love interest Chris and the murder of …
Author: Katherine Howell Publisher: Mac Millan Copyright Year: 2015 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Katherine Howell understands the mechanics of a good thriller. Start with a crisis then rachet up the anxiety while muddying the waters. In Howell’s Tell the Truth, the crisis concerns the disappearance of a young female paramedic, whose car is discovered in a parking lot …
Author: Goldie Alexander Publisher: Five Senses Education Pty Ltd, 2013 Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Marie Lakoumentas (Year 7 student) Book Synopsis: What a mystery! Goldie Alexander has certainly caught me intrigued in this novel with all the beautiful and descriptive language used. The adventure and justice drive in best friends, Melody and Sam leads them on all sorts of …
Author: Malla Nunn Publisher: Xoum Publishing Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: South Africa during the 1950s and the fissures of apartheid run deep. People are divided not just by race, but also within themselves, and Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper embodies all the contradictions. Of course there’s a crime, several in fact, to get things moving. A …
Author: P.M. Newton Publisher: Penguin Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Angela Savage Book Synopsis: Beams Falling is a powerful book that explores trauma and its legacy in the guise of a police procedural. The central character is Detective Nhu ‘Ned’ Kelly, the child of an Anglo-Australian veteran and his Vietnamese wife who were killed in front of their children, their …