Clan Destine Press Blog

In a talk last December, Australian crime writer Carmel Shute, one of the powerhouses behind, and a co-convenor of Sisters in Crime, shared some thoughts about women in crime writing, crime fiction in general, and a subject she has not seen covered in crime fiction until recently. Women domestic noir writers, she said, have started to talk about a condition that dare not speak its name? "Can you guess what it is?" Shute asks? "I’ll give you a clue – it’s the central theme of Worst Case Scenario by Australian-born Glasgow-based author, Helen Fitzgerald, whose book The Cry was made...

Join Clan Destine Press and writer Stephen Johnson for the release of Steve's novel Tugga's Mob on 29 November 2019. Tugga’s Mob is a page-turning tale of a long-forgotten crime and its inevitable retribution and you're invited to its launch party at The Rising Sun Hotel in South Melbourne! ‘With its tense shifts between characters, settings and time frames, and penetrating insights into the world of newsgathering, Tugga’s Mob is the story of a forgotten crime that refuses to stayburied but plays out in an edgy intersection with the present.’      — Garry Disher

Come let true crime writer Vikki Petraitis take you down the mean streets 24 November 2019! Book via Eventbrite, or come check out our Facebook page.

Terror Australis 31 October—5 November 2019 Clan Destine will be attending this five day convention in the Huon Valley of Tasmania.A festival for readers and writers and things that go bump in the night, come along—if you dare—and enjoy masterclasses on plot and professionalism, workshops on short story and screenwriting, as well as Halloween parties and panels on poisons, motives and means. Clan Destine's own publisher and crime writer, Lindy Cameron, will be part of the Pitch to Publishers session, and take part in the Marple v Holmes panel. She'll also be interviewing Kerry Greenwood about Phryne Fisher. Come along...

Announcing the arrival of Inside the Law, the latest book by Vikki Petraitis – a true crime memoir about her quarter of a century of researching and writing about real life crime. Vikki Petraitis had no idea that writing a book about a strange murder on Phillip Island would give her a second career alongside her chosen profession as a school teacher. Since 1993 she has spent thousands of hours with experts, survivors, victims and families, to tell the true stories of “real people, real grief, real loss, real horror”. Vikki accompanied police and crime scene professionals on active duty...