An amazing 160 books are already in contention for Sisters in Crime Australia’s 22nd Davitt Awards for the best crime and mystery books by Australian women. Publishers have until Friday 7 May 2022 to enter.
The first Crime Stack is Robin Gregory’s Traffic, from Clan Destine Press. We have 20 copies to give away to members.
What do you have to do to be in the running? Nothing, except be a member at the end of the month when we do the draw!
Announcing a new member benefit at Sisters in Crime. The Crime Stack is a monthly book draw for members. Every month we will have 20 books to give away as a thank you to members for supporting our work to celebrate women’s crime writing on the page and screen. Members don’t need to do anything to be in it. They just need to be a member at the end of the month when we do the draw.
Ann Penhallurick reports on the NSW Chapter’s Christmas event and how it showcased what Sisters in Crime does so well – brings an audience together to hear of, see, taste, and celebrate women’s crime writing in all its many guises.
Police are baffled by several deaths, each unique and bizarre in their own way – and shockingly brutal. Scotland Yard sends in its crack DCI, the enigmatic Jack Hawksworth, who wastes no time in setting up Operation Mirror. His chief wants him to dismiss any plausibility of a serial killer before the media gets on the trail.
Conscientious reconstructive surgeon Dr Richard Bombberg has come to a spectacular end. In the middle of a cocktail party, Indigo set him and a mysterious redhead on fire.
As Emily gets to know the family, their masks begin to slip, and what at first appears to be a dream come true turns out to be a prison …
The day PETA put their Farm Maps up onto the website and animal activists were trespassing onto farms, I was driving to Perth, listening to the ABC report on this atrocity. I was getting angrier and angrier and my speed was getting faster and faster, the more furious I became! I knew I needed to tell the farmer’s side of the story.
Actor-turned-author Anna Downes tells us how she now uses drama techniques in her written storytelling.
Lie After Lie is the TV series that should see us out of lockdown. Twelve hours of viewing, each hour packed with twists and turns, up and downs. Totally addictive.