Carmel Shute, the co-founder of Sisters in Crime in 1991, spoke to Graduate House at the University of Melbourne on 4 June. She was pleased that that the audience included a few Sisters in Crime members – Katrina Watson, Di Lightfoot, and K L Joy.
Text Publishing is generously donating five copies of four of its best-sellers for the June Crime Stack – Traced by Catherine Jinks, Lay Your Body Down by Amy Suiter Clarke, No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, and The Name of the Sister by Gail Jones. Join now to be in the running for a free copy.
Allen & Unwin is generously donating 20 copies of Lyrebird by Sydney writer, Jane Caro, for the May Crime Stack. Sue Turnbull, reviewer and Sisters in Crime ambassador says, “It’s hard to imagine a more Australian premise for a crime novel than that of Lyrebird.”
Best-selling UK author, Emylia Hall, spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem for the April Murder Monday. She lives in Bristol where she writes in a hut in the garden and dreams of the sea.
Playing with the whodunnit conventions, Ex from Alicia Thompson is a slow uncovering of the impacts of those close the the event. Alicia Thompson talks with Natalie Conyer about how she developed the story, the importance of notebooks (dated!) and where she found the starting point amongst all the story lines, themes and key plot points.
Do you keep a diary? Michelle Prak talks about doing just that, how it informs her writing and how it also gives her the ammunition when someone queries a character.
Simon & Schuster is generously donating 20 copies of Barren Cape by Adelaide Sisters in Crime member, Michelle Prak, for the April Crime Stack. It’s a spine-chilling thriller about what happens when people are pushed to the edge and forced to make unthinkable choices.
Sisters in Crime is mourning the death in Melbourne of Kerry Greenwood, founding member and beloved friend and author, at the age of 70. Sisters in Crime is planning a celebration of Kerry Greenwood’s life.
Best-selling author and multiple award winner, Jacqueline Bublitz, spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem for the March Murder Monday. Her latest novel is Leave the Girls Behind.
Fun ahead . . . Host ‘Judge’ Betty King explores tall tales and true of homicide investigations with former Homicide Squad detective Narrelle Fraser, forensic pathologist Joanna Glengarry, and defence barrister Zoe Broughton. Who does what and with (and to) whom in the course of a murder investigation, from the collection of evidence, the interrogation of suspects, the laying of charges, and the trial? And what interesting things happen along the way?