True crime author Ruth Wykes (Mornington Peninsula, Vic) took out the 23rd Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award presented on Saturday night (19 November) at SheKilda3: One-day crime spree, Sisters in Crime’s 25th anniversary convention. To mark the silver anniversary, a special silver stiletto trophy was presented – the winner, Jacqui Horwood (left), a librarian from …
The best way to celebrate is to join other Sisters in Crime – and Kerry Greenwood – at SheKilda3 at St Kilda Town Hall this Saturday. After all, that’s where Phyrne was involved in a famous shootout in Murder on Montparnasse. Catch up here.
All day and half day ticket sales to SheKilda3: One Day Crime Spree, Sisters in Crime’s 25th anniversary convention, have now closed. Tickets for Individual Sessions are still available online and at the door on Friday night at St Kilda Library Community Room or Saturday at St Kilda Town Hall. Click here to book online. And hear all about SheKilda3 from Melina Marchetta …
Pan Macmilan Australia. 2015 Reviewer: Diana Olsberg Synopsis: 1943 is a dangerous time to fall in love… In wartime Melbourne loose lips sink ships, so when Australian Women’s Army sergeant Stella Aldridge overhears soldiers whispering about a revenge killing, she follows her instincts to investigate, despite finding herself drawn to one of the soldiers, the …
Harlequin 2016 Reviewer: Robyn Walton SYNOPSIS: In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She’d been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen—blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched—though Bec remained oblivious …
It criminal how early a girl has to get up to promote Sisters in Crime and its SheKilda3 25th anniversary convention on 19 November. Professor Sue Turnbull, a convenor of Sisters in Crime from 1994-2016, got up at 4am Friday 11 November to speak to Rod Quinn on ABC Radio Overnights, about the TV crime …
L. J.M. OWEN: As an emerging author, I’ve been asked a few times why I write historical crime fiction. The question caught me unawares the first time. I knew I had a fire burning deep in my belly, an obsessive need to write, but there had to be more to it than that. I knew …
Three hundred crime fans from all over Australia are expected at SheKilda3: One-Day Crime Spree – Sisters in Crime Australia’s 25th anniversary convention on Saturday 19 November. The One-Day Crime Spree – which will actually run for A-Day-and-A-Bit – will involve 50 leading novelists, true-crime writers, screenwriters, lawyers, producers, publishers, and scholars. The ‘scene of …
Sisters in Crime held its Annual General Meeting in Melbourne on 7 October 2016, following its well-attended Antarctic Noir event. The meeting elected the following national convenors: Caz Brown, Ann Byrne, Robyn Byrne, Lindy Cameron, Vivienne Colmer, Moraig Kisler, Michaela Lobb, Pauline Meaney, Sandra Nicholson, Carmel Shute, Janice Simpson and Robyn Walton. Vivienne Colmer, a …
A capacity crowd turned out at Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel on 7 October 2016 to hear Ann Turner (Out of the Ice) and L.A. Larkin (Thirst and Devour) talk to Hazel Edwards about their new thrillers, both set in Antarctica, and why the landscape provides such an appealing, if chilling, scene of the crime. Hazel …