For Murder Monday, Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem spoke to acclaimed Adelaide author, Lainie Anderson. Her two crime books are The Death of Dora Black and Murder on North Terrace, both published by Hachette Australia, and both featuring the real-life character, Kate Cocks, who, in 1915, became the first policewoman in the British Empire employed on the same salary and with the same powers of arrest as men.
Grabbing a copy of Scarlet Stiletto: The Seventeenth Cut (ed. Phyllis King), the e-book collection of winning stories in the recent 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards, is the perfect answer to reading quandaries. Fourteen ripper reads for only $5.
Winning first prize and the coveted trophy in Sisters in Crime’s 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards is a victory, according to Sandra Thom-Jones, was always told that “autistic people can’t write fiction because we’re not imaginative or creative.”
Fremantle Press is generously donating twenty copies of The Ghost Walk, a medical thriller by Perth author Karen Herbert for this month’s Crime Stack. A lung-transplant surgeon is found dead. Seeking the truth is his secret lover who also saved her life.
Charlotte McConaghy reveals her motivations in writing her latest eco-thriller, Wild Dark Shore (Penguin, 2025), set on Shearwater, a tiny island close to the Antarctic, that is home to the world’s largest seed bank and under threat by rising tides.
Nicole grew up ‘in the arse end of nowhere’ – Magnetic Island – and crime fiction has been her salavation. Also, she might not know what a world-class flat white tastes like, but she does know how to spot a cone shell at ten paces
Sisters in Crime’s Annual General Meeting was held on 24 October at Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel, following the engaging and entertaining On the Beat event. The major decision was to lift membership fees by $5 but leaving concession rates the same. The fees have not been increased since 2018.
The new Sisters in Crime WA Chapter launched at the Geraldton Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival on 25 October with two events to an enthusiatic audience at Batavia Brewing.
The Stolen has it all. The wry humour, the suspense and creeping dread, the barely contained rage and an ending that near breaks you. It’s the second book featuring Detective Antigone Pollard, and it’s a cracker.
Kathleen Folbigg was labelled Australia’s worst female serial killer and spent 20 years in jail. It is one of the worst miscarriages of justice, fuelled by misogyny. But Kathleen’s friend, Tracy, took up the fight – and she never gave up.