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Grabbing a copy of Scarlet Stiletto: The Seventeenth Cut (ed. Phyllis King), the e-book collection of winning stories in the recent 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards, is the perfect answer to holiday reading. Fourteen ripper reads for only $5. Sydney author, Dinuka McKenzie, launched the book at the award ceremony on 21 November.

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Dr Sandra Thom-Jones, the winner of Sisters in Crime’s 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards 1st prize ($2000 plus the trophy), was always told that “autistic people can’t write fiction because we’re not imaginative or creative,” she said. Thom-Jones, who had previously won several awards in the national women’s short story competition, has well and truly proved those...

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Fremantle Press is generously donating twenty copies of The Ghost Walk, a medical thriller by Perth author Karen Herbert for this month’s Crime Stack

Did anyone know Dr Gabriel Beaufort better than Ruby Rose Gillespie? They were friends at high school. They are secret love...

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For this month’s Author Spotlight, Sydney writer Charlotte McConaghy spoke to Robyn Walton about her latest eco-thriller, Wild Dark Shore(Penguin, 2025). Charlotte won the Davitt (Best Adult Novel) in 2022 for Once There Were Wolves.

Hello Charlotte. Before I caught up with your latest novel, I was hearing and reading h...

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I grew up in the arse end of nowhere. Magnetic Island. Before you go to the trouble of looking it up, I can tell you it’s not off Cairns and it’s not part of the Whitsundays, either. You’ll find it between those two famous holiday spots, just off the coast of Townsville. A semi-isolated community of around 1500 people, the list of things Magnetic Island didn’t have was long: ...

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