Murder Monday: Meeti Shroff Shah
For Murder Monday Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem spoke to award-winning copywriter, content writer and author, Meeti Shroff Shah, who is based in Mumbai and is the creator of the Temple Hill mystery series.
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Sisters in Crime: Defying the Tyranny of Distance — A New WA Chapter Unites Women Crime Writers and Crime Readers
Sisters in Crime WA will debut at the Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in Geraldton in October 2025. The festival has warmly welcomed the initiative, and the group is thrilled to be part of the event. You’ll catch the Sisters speaking on Saturday 25 October, 4-6 pm, at Batavia Brewery, 60 Fitzgerald Street, Geraldton. Free . You can also stay on a meal,
Win a copy of Hot Ground
Fremantle Press is generously donating twenty copies of Hot Ground by Lisa Ellery for this month’s Crime Stack. Detective Jessy Parkin – sent to policing purgatory in the aftermath of a tainted investigation – is tasked with finding Max Cochrane, a veteran prospector who has vanished into thin air.
On the Beat
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.
There’s Nothing Like a Dame: Denise Mina & Bloody Scotland
Sisters in Crime’s roving reporter Lucy Sussex is attending the crime festival Bloody Scotland in September. As a taster, a wee dram, she interviewed Tartan noir author Denise Mina who has produced twenty award-winning crime novels, plus plays, comics, and graphic novels since 1996.
“Women’s crime writing has come of age”: Sisters in Crime’s 25th Davitt Awards winners announced
“Australian women’s crime writing has well and truly come of age,” says Ruth Wykes, the Judges’ Coordinator for Sisters in Crime’s 25th Davitt Awards for best women’s crime and mystery books, which were announced on Friday night [5/9] in Melbourne’s Angliss Restaurant. “The Davitt Awards have transformed the literary landscape over the past three decades. …
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.
THE PLAYERS
Minette Walters has written a powerful historical story that features two unforgettable women. Set in the dark days of The Bloody Assizes, it’s a wonderful read.
IF ONLY HE NEVER
When Curtis’s hopes for a brighter future with his beguiling new neighbour Laura are dashed by her betrayal turning him into a murder suspect, he’s positive things can’t get worse—until he escapes from a rain of bullets. The reason, so Laura tells him: he carries the solution scientists will kill for in his blood.
THE HATERS
An author releases her debut novel. She’s ecstatic. Then comes an aggressive one-star review online, and it triggers a campaign of terrible reviews and online harassment. Was it really a disgruntled reader who turned Camryn Lane’s life upside down?