The Palazzo
A thoroughly good read. This is a clever story of murder, relationships, and betrayal. You will be totally immersed in an exotic setting in Italy as you try and figure out “whodunnit”.
women’s crime writing
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.
A Shipwreck in Fiji
The wonderful Akal Singh is back! It’s Fiji, 1915, and the world is changing. Rumours of Germans on a neighbouring island, a murdered shopkeeper and the appearance of two Australian women sets the scene for a compelling cosy mystery.
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.
We are All Guilty Here
The wonderful Karin Slaughter never lets us down.
A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth.
Emmy Clifton has lived here all her life. She thinks she knows her neighbours. She’s wrong.
She thinks it’s just another hot summer night: a night like any other. She’s wrong.
When her best friend’s daughter asks for help, she thinks it’s just some teenage drama. She thinks it can wait. She’s never been more wrong in her life.
“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. …
A stunning new voice: Angie Faye Martin
Melaleuca is a beautifully written, absorbing crime novel that introduces us to a stunning new voice to Australian women’s crime fiction. Angie Faye Martin is a stunning new voice and here she writes about how she got to here and why.
Developing complex characters: Joanna Jenkins
Does anyone think they’re bad? That’s the question Joanne Jenkins asks. Read here how she researched this (most unusual!) and how it informed her development of complex characters.
We’re Not Us Without You
High school friends Lani, Tinker, Maya and Stig were inseparable until an unthinkable act shook the group. Now in their thirties, three of the friends are still close while Stig has disappeared completely, unable to face what happened in high school. Is it too late to save Stig from himself? And will bringing him back into the fold threaten the silence that has been keeping them safe all these years?