Coming into the holiday season, long hot summer days demand something to read while we lie around waiting for that cool breeze! What better than a gripping crime thriller or murder mystery?
The next four posts will be stories from some of the country’s top crime writers. Let me know if you want more!
Outback noir! Simon, a naïve backpacker, meets the much more worldly wise Maggie in Melbourne and they set off to explore the wilder places of Australia. Maggie proves to be the more resourceful of the two when Simon mysteriously disappears and she is pushed to extremes to survive an horrific situation.
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Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
This is the third and last book in the series that features investigator Aaron Falkes. A baby is found, carefully swaddled in a pram and her young mother is never found. Years later, the daughter begins to ask questions and long buried truths begin to emerge.
Ivan enters The Drover’s Rest, searching for Toxteth McGrath. He finds him in the ‘VIP’ lounge – playing the pokies! Another sleazy hotel, another dark mystery in a small town – how can you go wrong? The Seven are the original families that settled this town and still try to control everything that happens in it. Chris Hammer is one of Australia’s major crime writers.
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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Can you kill the same person 22 times? Well you can if you can travel between parallell universes. Seeking the perfect version of a woman he believes he loves, a murderer believes he must eliminate ‘imperfect’ versions of Madison May. Who will stop him? In this read, Madison is a real estate agent who unwittingly has made an appointment with a ‘client’.
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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Benjamin Stevenson writes very funny but totally serious take offs of the crime fiction genre. In this read, a crime writer is stuck on a train with five other crime writers, and one of them is murdered!
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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
When a mother of two begins to act strangely at first her husband is advised ‘it’s just menopause’. But when her strange behavior escalates, and a a body is found at the foot of the cliffs in town, she becomes a prime suspect. But there are many others in the town who also had motivation.
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Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is back from maternity leave and feeling stress from her personal life and from the station chief. With increasing pressure from the media to solve a high profile case involving a missing baby she is pushed to her limits.
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Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
It’s a great title – and it perfectly describes the real life experiences of Tim Watson-Munro a criminal Psychologist. Weird, funny and terrifying true tales as Watson-Munro reveals some of the warped minds behind some of the country’s major crimes. In this read, Tim is trapped on a small plane with passenger terrified of flying.
A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes to mental health issues, written by an author who has had over 25 years of clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry.
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Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
A crime story that leads us from a gay sauna, to the intrigues of of an international AIDS conference. This is celebrated gay activist Altman’s 17th book and draws on his considerable experience of the gay underworld and the political rivalry.
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Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
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