Clan Destine Press Blog — Sisters in Crime Australia

The Attackby Catherine Jinks Publisher/Year: Text Publishing/2021Entry in The Davitt Awards 2022 Publisher description Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second look at a kid called Darren. Last time she saw him his name was Aaron, and Robyn was his primary school teacher. And she was somehow at the centre of a...

A freezer full of body parts is the tip of the criminal iceberg for intrepid Western Australian Detective Inspector Eve Rock. Butchered bodies and their questionable use; a murdered man in a skip; a brazen multi-million-dollar haul from a safety deposit facility; thefts from a high-end jewellers and art galleries… All in day’s work for Eve and her team. The festive season has spawned a spate of bizarre crimes which, at least, reassures Eve that others’ bad habits far exceed her own. It also gives her a watertight excuse to avoid her dysfunctional family, and to spend time with her...

On Friday, 26 March 2021 at 6pm (AEDT) join Sisters in Crime Australia for an online talk with a panel of three writers with three new novels, including: Nicola Moriarty writer of You Need to Know; Erina Redden author of The Serpent's Skin; and Lyn Yeowart, writer of The Silent Listener, all joined by chair Robyn Walton, Sisters in Crime Australia vice-president. The event is free, but if you're Aussie and you make a donation when you sign up for the Toxic Families event, you and two other donors will be in the running for 150 delicious dollars worth of...

The beach is filled with possibilities as the scene of a crime. Tides wash up and wash away clues. There's plenty of open sand for a detective to traipse along and brood. Escape routes are many – sometimes perilous – and nature’s terrible force is never far away. And then there’s the local populace – ports and seaside towns attract a cross-section of humanity including eccentrics and misfits who get up to questionable doings when thrown together in the tight confines of the land’s end. This week with Sisters in Crime Australia, Belinda Alexandra, Sarah Thornton and Lisa Walker will...