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In The Only One in the World, Jayantika Ganguly's story "The Adventure of the Fated Homecoming" takes place in India. We asked Jay about the joys of writing a tale of Sherlock in her native home, and what she loved the most about it. What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while writing your story? I was looking for an appropriate equivalent for Mycroft Holmes (basically I wanted a grand, super-smart, powerful big brother for my Indian Sherlock), so I was digging into the origin and meaning of "Mycroft," and stumbled upon the tidbit that there's an AI voice...

In the middle of the year that went nowhere, I asked writers from around the world to interpret what Holmes and/or Watson might be like if one or both came from a cultural background different from Conan Doyle’s London-centred Victorian/Edwardian England, in stories where they also did not have to be white upper-class men. The characters could change in any and many ways to suit the story, so that readers could explore the Great Detective and his biographer from new and different angles. The result is The Only One in the World. Who's In This Sherlockian Anthology? Fourteen splendid writers...

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...

"Meet Miss Fidelia Knight. She set out from England with her parents on the SS Great Britain and arrived in Melbourne in 1874. Alone, except for half of Samuel Johnson." So opens a recent review by Jennifer Cameron-Smith of Billings Better Bookstore & Brasserie. Of Fin J Ross' book, Cameron-Smith goes on to say "what a word feast this novel is!…I discovered new words, met some old favourites, and loved the alliteration… Every one of the twenty-six chapters opens alliteratively. My favourite today is x." Claire Louisa calls it "a different kind of novel and so wonderfully uplifting and serendipitous."...

Clan Destine Press' writers and editors have some great content this month, with a true crime podcast, a great Irish TV show, and a Scarlet Stiletto ebook from Sisters in Crime, full to bursting with award-winning crime stories and ready for download in seconds. Love that one and there are eleven more anthologies to keep you cool this summer. Onward! Striking Out, a two-season Irish legal drama (Acorn TV, and Apple TV), is the TV equivalent of comfort food: nourishing, not too demanding, and very enjoyable, according to Sydney author Natalie Conyer. Catch up here for the full review. Tuesday 23 February, 7-8:00...