by bernadetteinoz | Jan 17, 2014 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Once again mysteries, thrillers, romantic suspense novels, detective stories (and the very occasional true crime book) have featured fairly heavily in the Australian Women Writers challenge, garnering an official total of 169 reviews and generating the following...
by bernadetteinoz | Apr 19, 2013 | Round-ups
There have only been ten new reviews of crime, mystery, thriller or true crime novels since the last roundup so I’ve decided to link to them all. At booksaremyfavouriteandbest Kate reviewed Dawn Barker’s début novel FRACTURED  very carefully. There’s...
by bernadetteinoz | Jan 3, 2013 | Round-ups
Australian women have been writing crime fiction for a long time. The country’s first acknowledged mystery story by a person of any gender was 1865’s Force and Fraud and it was written by proto-feminist Ellen Davitt. There is excellent, though somewhat disheartening,...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Sep 1, 2012 | Article, News
The 2012 Davitt Awards will be announced tonight at a dinner in Melbourne. The Davitts are a national crime writing award sponsored by Sisters in Crime Australia. They are awarded each year for the best crime books by Australian women. The categories are best Adult...
