by bernadetteinoz | Aug 15, 2014 | Round-ups
As the AWW Challenge’s resident crime correspondent I have been woefully and inexcusably inactive in recent months but at least I have emerged from the ether at a great time to celebrate crime writing by Australian women. The Ned Kelly Awards are the...
by bernadetteinoz | Feb 21, 2014 | Round-ups
To date the third Australian Women Writers Challenge has garnered 20 reviews in the crime/mystery/thriller category with Candice Fox’s HADES taking the early lead as far as numbers go, generating three reviews so far. Lou Murphy at The Newton Review of Books...
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 | Feb 17, 2013 | Round-ups
Officially this category is listed in the challenge as Crime fiction – mystery, detective, thriller, suspense or true crime but that gets a little unwieldy for a post title, however all those sub genres are covered in the roundups The AWW challenge started well...
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,...
