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Vise Le Coeur (Aim for the Heart): TV Review by Siobhan Mullany

Popular French police procedural. Captain Julia Scola (played by Claire Keim) is a proud police officer, like her father. She’s experienced and efficient and, at home, supported by her partner Daniel. At work, she’s in the bad books with some colleagues for reporting corruption and she has a new boss, Novak Lisica. He was a defence lawyer, is now a fast-tracked senior police officer, and he was her childhood friend and teenage boyfriend. She cannot work with him.

The times are a-changin’

Sisters in Crime’s Chair of Communications, Sara Hood, is standing down to travel the world so we have taken the opportunity to re-think our structure and press gang (!) more people into our team. Please welcome: Ani Allbutt, who joins as the new Chair, Communications. and Gill Thomas, who joins in the new role of Administration and Membership Manager.

The Crime Stack: The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish

For the February Crime Stack, Simon and Schuster has kindly offered 20 copies of The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish. To be in the running you need to be a member of Sisters in Crime. Why not join now?

Why I write when the wolf of failure howls outside my window: Erina Reddan

If you’re any kind of creative person sitting at your desk in your metaphorical attic, then your days are tinted by whatever colour you give to failure. . . like all creative people daring and failing to spin gold from straw I strive to find ways to tame that wolf of failure, and to go forward, as Richard Flanagan says – in terror, smiling!

Appearances can be deceptive: Suzanne Frankham

Suzanne Frankham, author of Shadow Over Edmund Street (Journeys to Words Publishing), told Maggie Baron that the collision of the past and present pushes her story into the thriller genre and towards its ultimate climax. The story is set in Ponsonby, a Victorian-era neighbourhood, close to the city centre, and the harbour in Auckland, where Suzanne grew up.

DIRT TOWN

Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels knows more than anyone how, in a moment of weakness, a person can be driven to do something they never thought possible.

Lewis also knows but can’t reveal what he saw that afternoon at the creek without exposing his own secret.
Five days later, Esther’s buried body is discovered.

Scarlet Stiletto: The Fourteenth Cut

Need a good book for the festive season? You can’t go past Scarlet Stiletto: The Fourteenth Cut, a collection of winning stories from this year’s competition, edited by Phyllis King.

The Crime Stack: The Next Girl by Pip Drysdale

For the December Crime Stack, Simon and Schuster has kindly offered 20 copies of The Next Girl by Perth author Pip Drysdale. To be in the running you need to be a member of Sisters in Crime. Why not join now?

Murder Mondays – A new start in the New Year

Jacq Ellem, a member of the newly minted Tasmanian Chapter, will be hosting Murders Mondays in the New Year. Jacq is a bibliophile, copywriter, occasional broadcaster and award-winning podcaster, which sounds really wanky but is her only claim to fame.

Who Shot Otto Muller?: TV Review by Siobhan Mullany

This Estonian series has the classic crime tropes, think Agatha Christie meets Death in Paradise, with the added element of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. The Talking Heads technique requires compelling writing and acting. This series has both, according to Sisters in Crime TV reviewer, Siobhan Mullany.

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