Jane Sullivan laments the lack of Australians in a hymn to female crime writers
Turning Page column, Spectrum – The Age, 30 July 2016, p. 21. Sisters in Crime gets a big rap! Click here to read.
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Crime and the big short… list
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
Bone by Bone – Sanjida Kay
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. …
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Frightfully English Execution – Shamini Flint
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 …
A winter launch – Out of the Ice by Ann Turner
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 …
Melanie Casey – Missing
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 …
Melanie Casey – Hindsight
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2013 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis The youngest in a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents, Cass is cursed with the not-so-sexy gift of seeing the past… but not just any past; she sees death. Fo years she’s hidden herself away in her family home. Now desperate for a better …
Melanie Casey – Craven
Publisher: Pantera Press Copyright year: 2014 Reviewer: Robyn Walton Synopsis Moving to the city, Cass Lehman hoped to leave her recent notoriety behind her. Her ability to experience the final moments of a violent death helped the local police capture a serial killer, but also meant she was almost his final victim… With a place …
Naming The Bones – Louise Welsh
Publisher: Text Publishing Company COPYRIGHT & YEAR: Louise Welsh, 2010 REVIEWER: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Synopsis Professor Murray Watson is rather a sad sack. His family, his career, his affair…not even drinking offers much joy. All his energies are now focused on his research into Archie Lunan, a minor poet who drowned 30 years ago off a …
Try Not to Breathe – Holly Seddon
Publisher: Corvus Copyright date: 2016 Reviewer: Sandra Nicholson Synopsis Alex is sinking. Slowly but surely, she’s cut herself off from everything but her one true love – drink. Until she’s forced to write a piece about a coma ward, where she meets Amy. Amy is lost. When she was fifteen, she was attacked and …