Join crime fans in celebrating the launch of Caroline de Costa’s new standalone mystery, The Rosemary (Boolarong Press). She will be in conversation with Sisters in Crime national co-convenor, Carmel Shute. The Rosemary is a departure for Caroline whose previous novels are police procedurals set in Cairns that feature Detective Cass Diamond - it's set in a boarding school. Free.
Police procedurals have been a staple of crime fiction since Wilke Collins’ The Moonstone in 1868. Australian women crime writers continue in the grand tradition, but adding new elements – women detectives, deadly small-town secrets, and different takes on violence against women.
A stolen baby, a stolen corpse, and a missing woman are at the centre of the novels by Vikki Petraitis, Sarah Bailey, and Rachel Givney – and the authors will reveal all to Philomena Horsley.
Fiji is not just coconut palms, coral reefs, shimmering blue seas and magnificent singing – it is fast becoming the tropical scene of crime … In conversation with host Leslie Falkiner-Rose, see what lurks beneath the surface of this Pacific idyll with authors Nilima Rao, Ali Lowe, and B.M. Allsopp.
