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 holiday reading. 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
Entries are now open for the 26th Annual Davitt Awards for the best Australian women’s crime and mystery books of 2025.
Sydney-based award-winning author Dinuka McKenzie will present Sisters in Crime’s 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards for best short stories, after first discussing her life in crime with award-winning author, Amanda Hampson.
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.
A gritty Melbourne crime thriller where old secrets collide with deadly new threats. Luke Harris, a disability worker living in St Kilda, has worked hard to bury his violent past. Now he’s back in Melbourne, chasing a quiet life, a normal job, his own house and a dog. But Luke’s old life isn’t done with him . . .