Olivia has escaped to deepest rural Tasmania after public humiliation but the house she has rented has a history. One day a stranger knocks on the door with a letter, and in unravelling its mystery, her own life also changes.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
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.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
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.
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.
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.
Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2023
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.
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.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
With all the focus over the past few years on the health care system – here’s a (fictional) tale to really scare you! Susan White is a real life doctor (though not surgeon) and she finds plenty to intrigue the reader in this tale of skullduggery (sorry!) in a hospital that her protagonist, Carla has to solve at her peril.
Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022
Margaret Hickey’s beleaguered Sergeant Mark Ariti has won Margaret the 2022 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival Danger Prize for crime fiction. The novel is set in a small outback town where, in true crime tradition, people have mysteriously disappeared! Hickey’s character of Mark Ariti adds a special charm to this atmospheric thriller. Extra long read because it’s a winner!
Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022
When a beloved environmental campaigner is found dead at the foot of a cliff in a local quarry, her friends suspect foul play.
But why do the police seem happy to write it off as suicide?
Recorded at BAD crime writers festival Sydney 2021