Tag Archives: crime

Crime, New readings uploaded!

kyle perry – the deep

Trouble in Deepest Tassie!

Kyle Perry knows first hand about how lives can go awry, particularly when substance abuse is involved. His day job is as a Drugs and Alcohol counsellor – but at night he is writing edge of the seat thrillers centered around his favorite part of the world – Tasmania,

This novel is set in one small fishing town, where one family has held the licenses to fish for prized Abalone for generations. Three members of the family go missing, then , years later, a boy of the right age is washed up on the beach with a horrifying message tattooed into his back. He is alive, but he is not telling what happened to him.

Kyle Perry Interview

This interview aired on Arts Canvass August 2021.

Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow.

New readings uploaded!

KATHERINE FIRKIN -‘STICKS AND STONES’

Great Crime fiction for rainy days on the couch!

The many years Katherine Firkin reported on crime and court reporting left her with the overwhelming impression of just how easily things can go wrong in people’s lives and she brings all these sub texts and subtleties into this gripping novel about a series of murders of young women.

Author Katherine Firkin

Interview and read with Katherine Firkin

This week I have included the interview and the read by Katherine and of course the interview was conducted by phone in this time of iso.

First broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 2020.

New readings uploaded!

katherine kovacic- ‘The Shifting landscape’

Art ,crime, history and a little flirting!

To buy t his book, click on image to go to Booktopia.

Katherine Kovacic writes crime thrillers centred around the art world.

 The Shifting Landscape is the third in a series of following the adventures of art Appraiser Alex Clayton, the first two books being- The Portrait of Molly Dean and Painting in the Shadows.

With her faithful Irish wolfhound Hogarth always at her side friend,  Alex finds herself called to appraise an  historic  art collection  in a country landscape  drenched in money and a bloody Indigenous  past.   When the family patriarch is murdered on the eve of announcing the succession plans, a valuable painting mysteriously vanishes and Alex is caught up in chasing it down.

Author Katherine Kovacic

Katherine Kovacic Interview

Katherine reads from ‘The Shifting Landscape’ in the Narratives Library under ‘Crime’.

Crime, New readings uploaded!

Matt Condon – NIGHT DRAGON

This week one for lovers of Crime books. A glimpse into a scary underworld in Australian criminal circles.

This is wonderful lengthy read by a journalist who has certainly come up close and personal with some of the worst criminals in Australian history both as a crime reporter and as an author.

Matthew Condon reads from ‘Night Dragon’

 

 

Matthew Condon interview

 

If you want to buy the book just click on any of the images in the post!

Recorded at the Byron writers Festival 2019

 

 

 

Crime, New readings uploaded!

SULARI GENTILL – Crossing the Lines

Author Sulari Gentill

CONGRATULATIONS to Sulari Gentill winner of this year’s Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction!!

 

This week I am thrilled to post Sulari Gentill with her beautifully written crime novel ‘ Crossing the Lines’. The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s top awards for Crime Fiction and are held during the Melbourne Writers festival week.

Here is Sulari reading from her book ‘Crossing the Lines’ followed by a short interview which was recorded at this years Bellingen Writers Festival.

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Recorded at the Bellingen Writers festival 2018

 

Childrens lit, Love and Relationships

New to Narratives Library

I have been all over this month collecting more reads for the Narratives Library. First down to Melbourne for the Australian Romance Readers Convention where I recorded over 20 romance authors with their themes ranging from crime, to science fiction and paranormal to regency and steampunk!

First up in this series this week are:

Michelle Somers with crime romance’ Murder most unusual”

Michelle picks up tips on crime solving from  police contacts and weaves them into hot romances and thrillers.

I also recorded  Lesley Truffle reading from ‘The Scandalous life of Sacher Torte’. Her other ripping yarn ‘Hotel du Barry’ will be uploaded soon.

Amy Andrews is another romance/crime writer. Listen to her read ‘Limbo; ( It’s hard to know whether to list these under’crime’ or under ‘Romance and relationships’!

And finally one for little kids who feel ‘different’ for whatever reason from their peers.

Carole Lander writes happy but realistic stories to help these kids cope in ‘Wheels of fire’ and Basketball tree.

Last week I also attended the Somerset Celebration of Literature which is the largest invited gathering of Young Adult Writers held in Australia.

There will be some lovely reads posted soon from that event also.

Click on the book covers to take you to the reads.