From stage to page
Actor-turned-author Anna Downes tells us how she now uses drama techniques in her written storytelling.
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Lie After Lie: Siobhan Mullany TV review
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.
Hitting the wall
Author Rebecca Freeborn shares her very intimate experience about the highs and lows of being a writer.
Having the Crime of Our Lives
Sisters in Crime Australia has turned 30. Co-founder (and Secretary) Carmel Shute reminisces about how Sisters in Crime came to be.
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Every month Sisters in Crime brings you new reviews from women who write criminally good books.
September Criminality
A quick round up of all the criminality that Sisters in Crime is up to this month.
Widow’s Island by L A Larkin
Widow’s Island isn’t the most complex thriller of its type, but its rhythm leads you easily into down the dark path of the story and on to a satisfying conclusion. Widow’s Island opens on a peculiar, standalone first-person scene set in 2007. In it, an unnamed man and a woman named Emma are travelling on the Whisper …
Dead Man Walking
Author: Kate McClymont (with Vanda Carson) Publisher/Year: Vintage Books Australia (Penguin Random House)/ 2019 Publisher description Employing her insider status and trademark wit, pace and intelligence, Kate McClymont unravels the complex business relationships between Michael McGurk and Ron Medich. Rumour has it that Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but no one expected to …
The Satapur Moonstone
Author: Sujata Massey Publisher/Year: Allen & Unwin/2019 Publisher description The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous intrigues and suspicious deaths. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri Mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse has fallen …