What did happen to Agatha Christie during her mysterious eleven-day disappearance just as she was on the cusp of fame? Mixing fact and fantasy, Kristel Thornell has written an entrancing novel of creativity and grief. She reconstructs Christie's retreat from a life that had become too difficult. Kristel will be in conversation with Sisters in ...
Sisters in Crime Australia and the Port Phillip Library present… Vikki Petraitis interrogates three true crime authors – Robin Bowles, Cheryl Critchley and Helen McGrath – about some famous Australian true crime cases they’ve investigated from Jaidyn Leskie, Jennifer Tanner and Phoebe Handsjuk to Alison Baden-Clay and Jill Meagher. Robin Bowles is known as Australia’s ...
US author Amy Stewart and Melbourne’s Lesley Truffle have both written smart, funny, romping adventures set pre-World War I, with larger-than-life protagonists, and they will tell Robyn Walton why the past has proved such fertile ground for criminal storytelling. Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of eight books, including two crime novels and the bestselling The Drunken Botanist ...
Authors Candice Fox, Tania Chandler and Fiona Capp talk to Jacqui Horwood about their new novels – all with water as the scene of the crime – and much, much more. Photograph: John Heweston In the case of Candice Fox’s latest novel, Crimson Lake (Penguin Random House), the action takes place in the steamy, croc-infested ...
Sisters in Crime's Treasurer, Robyn Byrnes, will be in Adelaide on her way back from the Salt Festival at Port Lincoln and the Eyre Writers Week, and is inviting members other like minded people in Adelaide to meet with her about about Sisters in Crime Australia. If you are currently a member, she wants to ...
For its 11th Law Week event, Sisters in Crime Australia is joining forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University to explore Victoria’s trail-blazing approach as to how sex crimes are treated and how they are monitored through the Victorian Sexual Offences List and the Victorian Register of Sex Offenders. Professor Bronwyn Naylor will interrogate ...
Book tickets Over the past decade, the icy winds of Nordic noir have swept through the worlds of crime fiction, feature film and television drama. The mood (gloomy and bleak) and look (dark and grim) combined with compelling narratives, strong female characters and the distinctive landscapes of Scandinavia have attracted huge numbers of devotees globally. ...
Book tickets Sisters in Crime convenor and author Janice Simpson puts three crime authors under the spotlight – Leigh Straw, Sarah Bailey and Dorothy Johnston – to explore what happens when crime (fiction) shifts to the coast or country: to Fremantle, the fictional NSW country town of Smithson and Queenscliff, respectively. Leigh Straw is a ...
Sisters in Crime, and all interested crime writers and readers are invited to meet: Sunday, 30 July, 12:30pm-2:30pm ‘Nest Bar’, Hotel Jen, Lvl 2, 159 Roma St, Brisbane (beside the Roma St Transit Centre) Free – if you don’t have a coffee, wine, snack or lunch NB if you have the Entertainment Book, bring it along for ...
Sisters in Crime@The Melbourne Athenaeum Library Friday 4 August, 5.30pm for 6pm: ‘Body in the Library’ short story readings Come and hear compere (and 2011 Scarlet Stiletto Award winner) Angela Savage as she introduces a selection of winning ‘Body in the Library’ stories from Sisters in Crime’s annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Since 2012, the Melbourne ...