Robyn Walton reports on an event with Robin Bowles where she discussed her latest crime book, Into the Darkness: The Mysterious Death of Phoebe Handsjuk (Scribe, October 2016). The book was launched by Susanna Lobez at SheKilda3. Robin Bowles, a long-time Sisters in Crime member, has been researching and writing about mysterious deaths and disturbing crimes …
FELICITY PULMAN: I’ve lived most of my life in Australia (although I was born in Zimbabwe) and yet at least half of my novels are set in medieval England where my heart and my dreaming seem to have taken root. This is somewhat unfortunate in terms of researching and writing historical crime (and historical fantasy.) ‘Unfortunate’ …
Sisters in Crime, a group who champions women crime writers, is having its 25th Anniversary Convention, called SheKilda3. Topics under debate include domestic noir, detectives with a difference, unlikely heroes, mystery with history, where to draw the line in Young Adult fiction and more. Sue Turnbull, co-convenor of Sisters in Crime Australia, and author Melina …
Carmen Callil was in her 20s when she moved from Australia to London to work in publishing. One day she was sitting on the floor in the flat of her friend Rosie Boycott, co-founder of the feminist magazine Spare Rib, reading a book about goddesses. There on the page was the virago, a heroic warrior …
Turning Page column, Spectrum – The Age, 30 July 2016, p. 21. Sisters in Crime gets a big rap! Click here to read.
Catch up with The Fairfax Media report on the short lists for the 2016 Davitt Awards and the Ned Kelly Awards. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bookmarks-news-and-views-from-the-book-world-20160809-gqofe2.html
Allen and Unwin – Corvus, 2016 Reviewer: Lesley Vick Synopsis Laura loves her daughter more than anything in the world. But nine-year-old Autumn is being bullied. Laura feels helpless. When Autumn fails to return home from school one day, Laura goes looking for her. She finds a crowd of older children taunting her little girl. …
Reviewer: Sandra Nicholson Publisher – piatkus 2016 Synopsis Inspector Singh is irate. He’s been instructed to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in London: a job for paper-pushers, not real cops, as far as he is concerned. And, as if that isn’t bad enough, his wife is determined to come along to shop for souvenirs …
What better way to mark the beginning of winter on 1 June (and the return of nippy weather to Melbourne after a long Indian summer) than with the launch of Ann Turner’s new Antarctic thriller, Out of the Ice (Simon & Schuster. Ann joined Sisters in Crime when her first novel, The Lost Swimmer, was …
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2016 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless. Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up in a local dump. Still haunted by her last run-in with a serial killer, Cass Lehman is trying hard to focus on the future. That’s not easy when …