From time to time we post news from outside Sisters in Crime Australia. This is all crime and women crime writing related, of course!
Ann Cleeves might be best known for her Vera novels made in to the wonderful series starring Brenda Blethyn. But she has also created another terrific series set in Shetland with a male detective, Jimmy Perez. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for a novel …
Congratulations to Caroline Overington, winner of Sisters in Crime’s 2015 Davitt Award (Non-Fiction) for Last Woman Hanged (Harper Collins) http://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460703625/last-woman-hanged on her new job as Associate Editor for The Australian. The appointment is another achievement in Caroline’s already stellar career. She is currently the Associate Editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly and based in Santa …
A big crowd jammed into Readings Carlton on 2 March for the launch of Aoife Clifford’s debut novel, All These Perfect Strangers, which is being published in March in Australia and in August in the United Kingdom in by Simon & Schuster and in July in the United States by Penguin Random House. Aoife credited …
In case you missed Jane Cadzow’s wonderful article from Good Weekend, on 16 January 2016, here it is: “Donna Leon and the madness of Venice” Millions of readers, including our own PM, have fallen for mystery novelist Donna Leon’s blockbuster Commissario Brunetti series. But it’s not her proudest achievement. Donna Leon steps out of the …
Liane Moriarty, who won Sisters in Crime’s 15th Davitt Award (Best Adult Novel) this year for Big Little Lies, has a new role – producer of the series of her book which has Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon as executive producers at HBO, following a bidding war with Netflix. The two actors also have starring roles …
Catch up with Michael MacKenzie’s interview with Scarlet Stiletto winner T J Hamilton on Radio National’s RN Afternoons on 1 December: Crime writing continues to be a growth industry in publishing, as our appetite for fictional violence, murder and torture seems insatiable, however it’s a pretty big leap from writing erotic bodice rippers to Jack …
Sulari Gentill was interrogated at Readings Hawthorn on 9 November by fellow author and Sister in Crime Angela Savage for a gripping and often hilarious 40 minutes about her latest book, Give the Devil His Due, the 7th Rowland Sinclair mystery. If you missed the event (and lots did), catch up with Marc McEvoy article …
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie is a new book, exploring the science behind the poisons used in the novels of Agatha Christie. Over the course of her writing career, Christie killed-off over 300 of her characters. Some were drowned, others were stabbed, but the vast majority were poisoned. Arsenic, Cyanide, Hemlock and …
The Lost Swimmer, the debut novel by Sisters in Crime member, Ann Turner, has been optioned by Film Art Media Pty Ltd to be made into a film. Sue Maslin, the producer of the adaptation of Rosalie Ham’s, The Dressmaker , starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis and Liam Hemsworth, will produce, and Ann Turner will write the …
Recently launched, ‘Provocare’ is a multimedia verse thriller created by Sisters in Crime member, Meg Vann, writer; Mez Breeze, interaction designer; and Donna Hancox, research lead for Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). It is the first work to be commissioned and produced for ‘Queensland Writers on the International Stage’, an Arts Queensland funded programme created …