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What Are Monsters Afraid Of? Great Crime Novels for 2020

Crime Novels for 2020

What Are Monsters Afraid Of? Great Crime Novels for 2020

You've heard the saying 'you should fear what a monster fears'? Well, you know a crime novel's good if a crime novelist praises its forensic verisimilitude or plot twists, or call it creepy, complex, suspenseful, glorious, pacey, first-class, cracking good, or 'a perfect holiday read.' These are just some of the words used by 27 crime novelists, recommending their choice 2020 reads, suitable for holiday devouring. Here are a few morsels: THE SURVIVORS by Jane Harper, (Pan Macmillan, 2020): Karina Kilmore: I love Jane’s writing and how she places people in the Australian landscape. The setting and atmosphere of her...

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Book Peek: Nifty Fifty—50 Cryptic Crosswords by Willsin Rowe & Fin J Ross

Book Peek Fin J Ross Nifty Fifty: 50 Cryptic Crosswords Willsin Rowe

Book Peek: Nifty Fifty—50 Cryptic Crosswords by Willsin Rowe & Fin J Ross

Want a sneak book peek into one of Clan Destine Press' newest books Nifty Fifty: 50 Cryptic Crosswords With an Aussie Flavour by dual-puzzle lovers Fin J Ross and Willsin Rowe and author interviews? Great, we have you covered. Read on! Some writers love penning cliffhangers but hate reading them, do you love doing tricky cryptic crosswords? Fin: In my book, nothing beats a cliffhanger, so equally satisfying is creating a clever, devious cryptic clue that perplexes and confounds and maybe adds to a puzzler’s vocabulary. WILLSIN: I love doing cryptic crosswords, and from as wide a range of setters...

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The 2020 Sisters in Crime 27th annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards Announced!

The 2020 Sisters in Crime 27th annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards Announced!

Scarlet Stiletto—The Twelfth Cut is here! A World War II crime story has won the Swinburne University of Technology $1500 First Prize in 2020's Scarlet Stiletto Awards. A story set during the COVID pandemic has won the Clan Destine Press Cross-Genre Prize, and two Clan Destine Press authors featured on the shortlist. The awards were presented online by Australian actor Nadine Garner and host Jane Clifton. Twenty-five-year-old Bermagui writer, Jessica Southern-Reid, won both First Prize and the coveted trophy for her story ‘Death in The Skies’. Her story women pilots during WWII also took out the History with Mystery Award...

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Enter the Webb…of Crime Fiction Friday

Emily Webb Podcasts

Enter the Webb…of Crime Fiction Friday

If you’re always looking for your next thriller or whodunnit, we've found what you're looking for. Emily Webb (writer and co-host of Australian True Crime Podcast) and writer of Angels of Death, is now hosting the podcast  Crime Fiction Friday. Webb will be talking to some of the today's most successful authors in the crime fiction genre, she'll get the nitty gritty on how these writers create their characters, their stories, and their crime scenes. Listeners will also get the low-down on new writers on the true crime scene, too. Emily Webb is a journalist, author, and the writer of Angels...

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Don't Write What You Know: Go Hell-for-Leather Into the Unexplored

Atlin Merrick Natalie Conyer She Said/She Said

Don't Write What You Know: Go Hell-for-Leather Into the Unexplored

Natalie Conyer and Atlin Merrick share thoughts on writing, in their She Said/She Said series, entries alternating between Improbable Press and Clan Destine Press. ATLIN: Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps! That advice is offered often by the privileged, to those with far fewer advantages. Except here's the thing: the phrase was originally coined as an indictment, it was meant to show that it's impossible to pull yourself up by your own feet. I feel it's the same with the absolutely bonkers advice of 'write what you know.' That advice has led to copious "literature" by white English professors...

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