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Stalked: The Human Target: Stories of people pursued by stalkers and the devastating effects on their lives

Author: Rachel Cassidy Publisher/Year: Rockpool Publishing/2018 Publisher overview Stalked: The Human Target is a detailed account of the effects of stalking, which is experienced by a shockingly high proportion of the population. Celebrities like David Letterman and Madonna are the highest profile targets of stalkers, but ordinary people are also targeted, harassed and bullied. Rachel Cassidy, …

Keep Calm and Kill the Chef

Author: Livia Day (Tansy Rayner Roberts) Publisher/Year: Twelfth Planet Press/2019 Publisher overview Scones, tea, and a stabbing… When Tabitha Darling entered Cafe La Femme in a reality TV show hosted by an infamous “bad boy” Chef, she never expected to be a suspect in his murder. When Xanthippe Carides quit working in a cafe to …

The Heartwood Hotel

Author: Kerry McGinnis Publisher Year: Michael Josephs/Penguin Random House Australia/2018 Publisher overview In the abandoned railhead town of Tewinga, now almost a ghost town, Lyn and Adam Portman struggle to keep the Heartwood Hotel afloat. Lyn loves her husband and longs to be a mother. But she’s kept busy caring for her elderly father, her …

Blanche Clark wins Sisters in Crime’s 26th Scarlet Stiletto Award

Blanche Clark (Preston, Vic), a former Book Editor at the Herald Sun, won Sisters in Crime’s 26th Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award presented at a gala dinner on Saturday night (23 November) at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel by actor Geraldine Hakewill (pictured below), star of Ms Fisher’s MODern Murder Mysteries and Wanted. Hakewill first …

You are warmly invited…

Blog post from one mildly-crazed ‘Murder She Wrote’ Festival Director in Tasmania’s Huon Valley aka Dr L.J.M. Owen It’s 4.33 am. I’m working. Not on another crime fiction novel, but on a crime fiction-themed literary festival. “Why?’ I hear you ask. The answer is, ‘Cause I a little crazy! On reflection, in 2014 …

Blood Sisters

Author: Caroline de Costa Publisher/Year: Wild Dingo Press/2019 Publisher Description A young Asian woman lies in a pool of blood in a Cairns motel; she dies before anyone can learn her story. Detective Cass Diamond and her team are soon on the case, trying to discover if she was part of a sex-trafficking ring and, …

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The 26th Scarlet Stiletto Awards close on 31 August

A record $10,060 is up for grabs in Sisters in Crime Australia’s 26th Scarlet Stiletto Awards for best short crime and mystery stories by Australian women. “It’s worth killing for – at least on the page,” said Tara Mitchell, a Sisters in Crime national convenor. “And for the very first time there is an award …

Law Week: Women are still being targeted online “at their weakest point”

Over 120 crime fans turned up for Sisters in Crime’s 13th Annual Law Week event on Friday 17 May, Stalking, Trolling and Cyber-Bullying, organised in partnership for the fourth year running with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University. Special thanks to Professor Kathy Laster and her wonderful team for helping make this all happen. Thanks also …

The Way Back

Author: Kylie Ladd Publisher Year: Allen & Unwin 2017 Publisher Synopsis Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who sits next to her in Science-but most of all she loves horses and horse-riding. Charlie’s parents have leased her a horse, …

Egyptian Enigma

Author: L.J.M. Owen Publisher/Year: Echo Publishing 2018 Publisher Synopsis Dr Elizabeth Pimms, enthusiastic archaeologist and reluctant librarian, has returned to Egypt. Among the treasures of the Cairo museum she spies cryptic symbols in the corner of an ancient papyrus. Curiosity leads Elizabeth and her gang of sleuths to investigate a cache of mummies hidden in …