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?
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.
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.
What are the joys and challenges of writing YA mysteries? Robyn Walton spoke to and long-time member, Joanna Baker, about her latest YA novel, Evermore (Soren Press, 2022) for Sisters in Crime’s December Author Spotlight. Joanna spends her time between north-west Victoria and Hobart where she grew up.
A capacity crowd gathered on Saturday night (3 December) to celebrate Sisters in Crime’s 29th Scarlet Stiletto Awards at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel. Nicole Chamoun, star of Troppo, based on the book, Crimson Lake, by long-term member, Candice Fox, presented the awards, after first discussing her life in crime with award-winning author and podcaster, Vikki Petraitis.
The paradisiac free-diving haven that embraces Jo Ainsley without judgement is not all it seems. It harbours some sinister secrets – and so does Gabe. Jo searches for answers, but is she prepared for what she uncovers? She must decide where her loyalties lie and if she is really ready to confront the darkness of her past…
For the November Crime Stack, Text Publishing has kindly offered 20 copies of After You Were Gone by Adelaide author Vikki Wakefield.
The first adult crime book by award-winning author Vikki Wakefield is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that poses the questions: How far would you go to find your child?
Melbourne author, Louise Bassett, spoke about her debut novel, The Hidden Girl (Walker Books Australia) with Maggie Baron for November’s Author Spotlight. She says young adults often have a strong sense of justice so this makes them a great readership for crime fiction. They are also challenge you as a writer—you have to keep your story engaging because there are so many things competing for young adults’ attention.
Love it or hate it, there comes a point in every writer’s life when we can’t ignore it – we as writers will probably need to engage in marketing at some point in our careers. We need to let people know about our book, or just to reach out to readers and other writers to say we’re out there looking for great stories to read (if you’re out there and you have a psychological thriller with a twist I haven’t read, let me know where I can find it). . .
The series begins with a young woman cycling round her home town. She has been released from prison after serving her sentence for killing another young woman from the town. Sound familiar? This is not Troppo. Savage River is set in Victoria, not in far north Queensland.