by bernadetteinoz | Feb 17, 2017 | Round-ups
The sixth year of reading and reviewing Australian women crime writers has started strongly with 43 reviews of 28 different books. Not surprisingly two of 2017’s new releases have scored the most reviews with Wendy James’ THE GOLDEN CHILD and Sara...
by bernadetteinoz | Jan 20, 2017 | Yearly wrap-up
The crime, mystery, thriller, detective and suspense category of the Australian Women Writers Challenge continues to attract a healthy amount of interest from Challenge participants. In 2016 the numbers of interest included: 291 discussion posts (mostly reviews but a...
by bernadetteinoz | Dec 16, 2016 | Round-ups
This year’s Challenge has ended with a bit of a surge in this category. There have been 45 posts discussing 36 works of crime fiction by 31 different authors since the last round up (once again true crime has been sadly neglected). There wasn’t a big new...
by bernadetteinoz | Oct 21, 2016 | Round-ups
Since the last Crime round up there were 32 reviews posted of 22 different books. Numbers might be down as we slide into the end of the year but we’ve been reading some thought-provoking books over the past two months. Melina Marchetta’s first book for an...
by bernadetteinoz | Aug 19, 2016 | Round-ups
Alas review numbers are a little down this round-up, with only 39 posts discussing 29 distinct works. However there are still plenty of gems being read and reviewed. J.M. Peace has followed up last year’s well-received debut with THE TWISTED KNOT which attracted...