Too Young To Know, Too Old To Listen: Joan Sauers
Not sure how old to make the protagonist in her Southern Highlands Mysteries series Joan Sauers took inspiration from the Baby Animals… ‘too young to know, too old to listen’. She explains why ….
crime fiction
BURNING MOUNTAIN
Darcy Tindale’s debut, The Fall, was shortlisted for the 2024 Davitt Awards. In Burning Mountain, Detective Rebecca Giles investigates the discovery of a human skull; a cold case that her career policeman father couldn’t solve 20 years ago.
THE PROSPECT
This book is a bit of a departure for Fleur McDonald. While her Detective Dave Burrows books are excellent, they can be of a slightly more gentle nature than The Prospect. This book is an all-out, gritty crime novel. It is Outback Noir at its finest.
Vale Kerry Greenwood 17 June 1954 – 26 March 2025
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.
THE CLEANER
A beautifully sinister, propulsive page-turning adult debut that explores themes of obsession, identity, and privilege, about a woman who takes a job as a cleaner – but what she’s really after is revenge…
It’s not dust she’s looking for.
It’s dirt.
THE INHERITANCE
On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion.
Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how to split his petrochemicals empire between his three children. Everyone has a secret – but only one would kill to protect it…
UNBURY THE DEAD
They messed with the wrong women. Teddy and Alice are hired hands who have flexible moral boundaries. This is a great read for people who enjoy fast-paced stories with unconventional heroines.
Murder Monday: Jacqueline Bublitz
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.
THE CAMPERS
What would you do if a group of itinerants set up camp in “your” park in your quiet suburban neighbourhood? This is a wonderfully provocative story about privilege, hypocrisy and justice.
OUT IN NOWHERE
Most rural noir is written by city dwellers. Not this one, and you will feel the authentic bush tones from the opening chapter. Detective Dave Burrows is back in this gritty, sometimes funny, and often tense story.