Killer Content with Emily Webb: Recent Episodes
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If you’re always looking for your next thriller or whodunnit, join Emily Webb (writer and co-host of Australian True Crime Podcast) for Killer Content, where she'll be talking to crime-obsessed authors about how they create their characters, their stories and their crime scenes.
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Roger Simpson has created some of the most popular television series in Australia. Think Stingers, Good Guys, Bad Guys, Something in the Air and Halifax F.P. which features the character Jane Halifax, Forensic Psychiatrist, played by Rebecca Gibney. Now, Roger has taken Jane Halfax from the screen to the page. He’s writing three crime fiction books starring Halifax F.P and the first is TRANSGRESSION
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Produced and hosted by Emily Webb author of:
Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
Suburban True Crime (audiobook)
Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
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Instagram https://instagram.com/emilywebbcrime
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Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Listen to Killer Content on:
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Kate McCaffrey is an acclaimed author of young adult fiction and now she’s written her first adult novel.
DOUBLE LIVES is a story within a story following Amy, Journalist trying to establish herself in Western Australia again after time away working in Melbourne.
Amy has the idea to do a podcast and the season one case she focuses on is the murder of young transgender woman Casey Williams.
Upon arrest, Casey’s boyfriend Jonah Scott confessed to her murder immediately and pleaded guilty. But Amy thinks there’s more behind this shocking crime and delves into the cult run by Jonah’s family and its potential involvement in Casey’s murder.
The story explores identity, truth and acceptance in a compelling way. It’s my first time reading Kate’s work and I’ll be reading her young adult books, which have been on secondary school reading lists for a number of years.
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Find out more about Kate : https://katemccaffrey.org/
Purchase DOUBLE LIVES
Produced and hosted by Emily Webb author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Suburban True Crime (audiobook)
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Follow Emily on Twitter https://twitter.com/emilybwebb
Instagram https://instagram.com/emilywebbcrime
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilywebbcrime
Facebook facebook.com/emily.webb.podcaster.author
Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Listen to Killer Content on:
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYWNhc3QuY29tL2NyaW1lLWZpY3Rpb24tZnJpZGF5
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Robert Justice is a Denver-based author whose debut fiction book THEY CAN’T TAKE YOUR NAME has the real and shocking issues of wrongful convictions and the death penalty at the core of the narrative.
Read a book, right a wrong is at the heart of Robert’s writing and much of the proceeds from They Can’t Take Your Name go The Korey Wise Innocence Project, which provides free investigative and legal services to people serving time in Colorado prisons for crimes they did not commit.
Robert is also the host of the Crime Writers of Color podcast - It’s a great listen and you’ll discover lots of new authors and books!
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Find out more about Robert: https://robertjusticebooks.com/
They Can’t Take Your Name is published by Crooked Lane Books
Listen to Crime Writers of Color Podcast: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/podcast
Korey Wise Innocence Project: https://www.colorado.edu/law/academics/public-service/korey-wise-innocence-project
Produced and hosted by Emily Webb author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Suburban True Crime (audiobook)
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
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Instagram https://instagram.com/emilywebbcrime
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Greg Woodland is a scriptwriter, director and once upon a time…an aspiring punk rocker. After a number of his script projects, including one picked up by Disney, didn’t make it to production he turned to crime fiction to tell his stories. His debut THE NIGHT WHISTLER, dubbed a rural gothic noir, was actually adapted from a script he’d written and inspired in part from a real life crime his mum endured.
His second book THE CARNIVAL IS OVER has a few characters carry over from The Night Whistler…and is set in the same fictionalised town in NSW’s New England region.
Disclosure: These show notes contain Booktopia affiliate links, meaning I get a little commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at no cost to you AND authors get a book sale (including me!).
Produced and hosted by Emily Webb author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Suburban True Crime (audiobook)
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Follow Emily on Twitter https://twitter.com/emilybwebb
Instagram https://instagram.com/emilywebbcrime
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilywebbcrime
Facebook facebook.com/emily.webb.podcaster.author
Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Listen to Killer Content on:
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
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John M. Green’s cracking art heist, underworld thriller FRAMED is a ripper of a read. The main character JJ is a whip-smart Aussie art conservator who finds herself lured into a dark web of intrigue, deception and murder after she believes she spots a long-lost masterpiece through the window of a luxury apartment. It’s a wild ride that spans locations around the globe.
John is the author of six crime thrillers including FRAMED and turned to writing after a career in law and investment banking. He co-founded Affirm Press in 2008 with the goal to invest in and nurture the next generation of Australian readers and writers.
Disclosure: These show notes contain Booktopia affiliate links, meaning I get a little commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at no cost to you AND authors get a book sale (including me!).
Your host is Emily Webb author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Suburban True Crime (audiobook)
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Follow Emily on Twitter https://twitter.com/emilybwebb
Instagram https://instagram.com/emilywebbcrime
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilywebbcrime
Facebook facebook.com/emily.webb.podcaster.author
Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Listen to Killer Content on:
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYWNhc3QuY29tL2NyaW1lLWZpY3Rpb24tZnJpZGF5
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Alexandra Shapiro is a New York criminal defence attorney and one of the leading appeals lawyers in the United States. Early in her legal career Alexandra was a clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when the iconic legal figure had just started on the Supreme Court. Alexandra was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan before starting her own firm. She has a particular focus on the defence of criminal insider trading cases…these are complex cases where she says sometimes people can unwittingly find themselves charged with really serious crimes…
While she’s deep in the work of true life crime every day, Alexandra has turned to writing fiction as a way to shed light on how the criminal justice system works…and its failings. Her debut legal crime thriller is called PRESUMED GUILTY.
Your host is Emily Webb author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Suburban True Crime (audiobook)
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Follow Emily on Twitter https://twitter.com/emilybwebb
Instagram https://instagram.com/emilywebbcrime
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilywebbcrime
Facebook facebook.com/emily.webb.podcaster.author
Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Listen to Killer Content on:
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
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The book we are going to talk about in this episode is one of my stand-out reads this year. Debut author John Byron’s dark, thrilling crime fiction THE TRIBUTE sees a tough, blokey Sydney Detective Dave Murphy chasing a serial killer obsessed with a 16th century anatomy text called The Fabrica. And his art historian sister Jo joins the hunt as well.
The Tribute is a tantalising blend of medical-forensic and police procedural that has an important issue underpinning the narrative - what is to be a man in modern Australian society? I love crime fiction that is dark and character-driven and The Tribute is exactly this - it’s jaw-droppingly good!
Your host is Emily Webb author of:
· Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
· Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Follow Emily on Twitter https://twitter.com/emilybwebb
Instagram https://instagram.com/emilywebbcrime
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Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Listen to Killer Content on
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Ellen J. Green has written a book called Murder in the Neighbourhood about America’s first recorded modern day mass shooting in 1949 in Camden, New Jersey. The gunman was Howard Unruh, a war veteran who killed 13 people from his neighbourhood including three children, in just 12 minutes. It rocked the state and the nation. Sadly it wasn’t an anomaly and mass shootings have continued.
Ellen is a therapist at a maximum security prison and encounters the tragedy of violence every day. Murder in the Neighbourhood is her first non-fiction book.
Murder in the Neighbourhoodis published by Thread Books and Hachette.
Follow Ellen on Twitter @ejgreenbooks and Facebook
Your host is Emily Webb
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Emily is the author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Listen to Killer Content on:
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Spotify
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Crime fiction reviewer, interviewer and champion of antipodean authors Craig Sisterson is back with “five books in five minutes” and he doesn’t disappoint. Craig is the author of Southern Cross Crime, The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film and TV of Australia and New Zealand.
Craig is the Commissioning Editor for an anthology of crime fiction short stories from Australian and New Zealand writers called DARK DEEDS GO DOWN UNDER published by Clan Destine Press.
He’s my go-to-guy every time for crime fiction book recommendations. Here’s the five books he has recommended (July 2022).
- Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
- Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter
- Dirt Town (Dirt Creek in USA) by Hayley Scrivener
- The Cleaner by Paul Cleave (backlist pick)
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesisas
Follow Craig on Twitter @CraigSisterson
Your host is Emily Webb
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Emily is the author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Listen to Killer Content on
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Crime fiction reviewer, writer and champion of antipodean authors Craig Sisterson is back on Killer Content to chat news, awards including the longlist for the prestigious New Zealand Ngaio Marsh Awards (which Craig founded) and the 2022 the CWA Daggers (we recorded this interview a week before the winners were announced. The list of winners is in these shownotes below). Craig also does his “five books in five minutes” segment and he doesn’t disappoint.
Ngaio Marsh Awards 2022 Longlist
Winners of the CWA Daggers
Craig is the Commissioning Editor for an anthology of crime fiction short stories from Australian and New Zealand writers called DARK DEEDS GO DOWN UNDER published by Clan Destine Press.
Craig is the author of Southern Cross Crime, The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film and TV of Australia and New Zealand.
Follow Craig on Twitter @CraigSisterson
Your host is Emily Webb
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Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Emily is the author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Listen to Killer Content on
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
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My entry into the work of bestselling Scottish author Stuart MacBride is his latest book No Less the Devil … and I absolutely loved it.
This book features the character, Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh who is part of a team working around the clock to find a serial killer nicknamed the Bloodsmith.
Stuart is also the author of the bestselling series of books featuring Detective Sergeant Logan McRae, set in Aberdeen. Logan was first introduced to readers in Cold Granite.
No Less the Devil is published by Bantam Press (Imprint of Penguin)
You can follow Stuart on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stuartmacbridebooks
The book Stuart recommends at the end of this episode is Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. Stuart also mentions his Aussie author friend Adrian Highland’s book Diamond Dove.
Meaning of the Scottish word THRAWN that Stuart mentions in relation to the Scots is, according to the Scottish Language Centre, stubbornness and absolute conviction.
Your host is Emily Webb
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Emily is the author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
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I was introduced to John Stamp’s writing through his latest book - a crime action thriller called Blood Red Ivory. It’s got a compelling lead character Special Agent Tyrone Benhoff who is with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service - that’s NCIS, like the popular TV show.
Tyrone is on the outer after getting on the wrong side of his command…and he’s transferred to Djibouti in Africa.
Whilst this is fiction, John, who writes across crime, action and horror genres, has first hand experience of what this world is like. He’s served as a Special Agent of the FBI, NCIS, and as a Police Officer in South Carolina.
We chat a lot about crime and writing…and also podcasting because John has his own podcast talking to true crime writers.
You can follow John on Twitter @JohnStampWriter
Blood Red Ivory is published by Wild Blue Press
Listen to John’s podcast That’s Criminal with John Stamp
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Emily is the author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Listen to Killer Content on
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
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The domestic thriller, or domestic noir, is a genre that is really popular and we have some Aussie authors writing gripping tales that are published worldwide.
Kylie Kaden is one of these authors. I discovered Queensland-based Kylie by reading her latest book One of Us which lifts the lid on what, on the surface, appears to be the polished suburban life. It’s a premise that I can’t get enough of - what goes on behind closed doors? What secrets are people desperately trying to keep hidden below that Instagram-perfect veneer?
You can follow Kylie on Instagram @kyliekadenwrites
One Of Us is published by Pantera Press.
Your host is Emily Webb
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Emily is the author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Listen to Killer Content on
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
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Shelley Burr is a debut Australian author who drew inspiration for her novel WAKE from true
crime online forums to create the story which centres around anxious and reclusive woman Mina McCreery, whose life has been defined by the disappearance of her twin sister Evie. The case has attracted intense media attention and is a favourite among true crime communities online.
Shelley and I delve into the ethics of true crime during this conversation, as well as her path to publication but first we start by finding out who she is because Shelley’s an Aussie crime author to watch.
You can follow Shelley on Twitter @ByssheShelley
WAKE is published by Hachette.
Your host is Emily Webb
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Emily is the author of:
- Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
- Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Listen to Killer Content on
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Australian debut author Dinuka McKenzie burst on to the crime fiction scene early in 2022 with her police procedural The Torrent. What I really like about The Torrent is that the main character Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is heavily pregnant, in her last week of work before maternity leave and has a pretty stable home life - not the usual circumstances for a police officer that we traditionally see in crime fiction.
In this episode you’ll hear Dinuka talk about her path to publication, how her own life inspired the creation of DS Kate Miles and the crime author she absolutely loves.
First, we find out more about Dinuka.
You can follow Dinuka on Twitter @DinukaMcKenzie
The Torrent is published by Harper Collins Australia.
Your host is Emily Webb
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Emily is the author of:
Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
Listen to Killer Content on
Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/killer-content-with-emily-webb/id1539843342
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Rebecca Griffiths is a British author whose books had me staying up way too late…which is always a reliable sign of a great read.
Rebecca spoke to me from her home in rural Wales and we chatted about her books, finding confidence in her creativity and her formative life experience that has meant she isn’t afraid to go to some difficult places with her writing.
This conversation discusses topics of Rebecca’s lived experience of abuse when she was a child. As well as some details of the crimes of the killers who feature in her books.
And when we recorded the conversation, it was before Rebecca’s book The Hidden Child was released and you’ll hear us refer to it as The Body on the Moor. The title changed on publication.
If you have been affected by anything discussed in this episode you can contact:
Lifeline (Australia) 13 11 14
Samaritans (UK) 116 123
More info:
10 Rillington Place Murders
https://metro.co.uk/2016/11/30/chilling-pictures-of-the-real-10-rillington-place-before-it-was-demolished-to-erase-its-gruesome-past-6292178/
The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/how-ian-brady-and-myra-hindley-the-moors-murderers-were-caught
You can follow Rebecca on Twitter @rebeccagriffit7 and Goodreads
Your host is Emily Webb
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Emily is the author of:
Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
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Sheerwater by Melbourne author Leah Swann is one of those books that I think about often…long after I read it.
In 2021 I was on the judging panel for Sisters in Crime Australia’s Davitt Awards. Sheerwater was one of the many crime books we read by Australian women authors and it ended up winning the award for best debut novel. It’s a tense, emotional story of a woman called Ava whose two young sons go missing when she stops to help at the sight of a light plane crash. Ava and her sons were on their way to a new life in a small coastal town. The reasons unfold as the story progresses.
Thanks to guest Leah Swann.
Find out more about Leah at her website.
Your host is Emily Webb
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Website: https://www.emilywebbcrime.com/
Emily is the author of:
Suburban True Crime: Cases you’ll never forget and some you’ve never heard of
Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
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Suzanne Frankham is a New Zealand born, Australian-based crime writer who published her first crime novel in 2021 called Shadow over Edmund Street, a police procedural and thriller set in Auckland featuring a detective called Alex Cameron.
Suzanne’s path to crime fiction began with short stories that have won Sisters in Crime Australia’s Scarlet Stiletto Awards and a S.D. Harvey Short Crime Story Award.
She’s also got degrees in zoology and computing and teaches chess, which we talk about a bit in the interview.
Shadow over Edmund Street is published by Journey to Words
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An interview with Garry Disher has been on my Wishlist for so long so I am thrilled I got the chance to speak to him. Garry has written more than 50 books across different genres but he’s best known for his searing crime fiction. Garry was writing crime set in Australia for decades, long before rural or outback noir became popular or had the status that it does now.
My entry into Garry’s writing was the brilliant Bitter Wash Road, which introduced us to his character Constable Paul Hirschausen, a cop exiled to a rural community where he’s an outsider. There’s three books in the Hirsch series and Garry’s currently working on the next one.
His new book The Way it is Now introduces us to cop Charlie Deravin who is back in his coastal country hometown where the mystery of his mother’s disappearance 20 years before still hangs heavily.
The Way it is Now is published by Text Publishing.
Find out more about Garry at his website https://garrydisher.com/
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Mike Masson spent more than 30 years in the Metropolitan Police in London, having moved to the capital from a small island in Scotland where he grew up in a large family. During his police career he was a homicide detective and was also stationed at Heathrow Airport, before retiring as an Inspector. Mike has some fascinating experiences to draw upon as a crime writer. His debut book, The Final Crossing is set on a cruise ship, where a woman disappears - and it’s up to Calum McIntyre, chief security officer and retired detective, to find out what happened.
The Final Crossing is published by Conrad Books. https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-final-crossing-mike-masson/ebook/9781839783098.html
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Award-winning debut author Loraine Peck has a lot to celebrate. Not only did her first book The Second Son win the best debut crime fiction in the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards, Loraine is also a cancer survivor having had ovarian and breast cancers. She’s doing well and now advocates for more research and funding into gynaecological cancers. She’s on the board of The Australian Gynaecological Cancer Foundation. Loraine’s also got an intimate connection with crime as you’ll find out. It’s no wonder that her Sydney-based modern day crime saga is so gripping.
The Second Son is published by Text Publishing https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-second-son
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Find out more about Loraine’s cancer story at https://agcf.org.au/loraines-story/
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Michael Burge is a writer and journalist based in Northern New South Wales, in a very literary-named town called Deepwater.
I was privileged to talk to Michael about some deeply personal experiences and his advocacy for the LGBTIQA+ community that has influenced his first fiction book Tank Water.
Tank water takes place over two critical time periods - 1985 and 2005 with the protagonist James returning to his small country hometown to attend his cousin Tony’s funeral. People believe Tony died by suicide but James has his sneaking suspicions that this may not be the case.
If you have been affected by anything you hear in this episode you can phone lifeline on 13 11 14 or QLife on 1800 184 527 or go to https://qlife.org.au/
Thanks to this week’s guest Michael Burge.
Tank Water is published by Midnight Sun Publishing https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/09/tank-water/
You can find out more about Michael at https://burgewords.com/
SBS News has done an interactive investigation into potential gay-hate murders among a list of 30 unsolved deaths in New South Wales. https://www.sbs.com.au/gayhatedecades/
The Bondi Memorial public artwork in Mark's Park in Tamarama aims to honour victims and survivors of homophobia and transphobic violence, to help acknowledge and heal the significant community trauma caused by these events. https://www.bondimemorial.com.au/about-the-project
Find out more about Australia’s same-sex marriage postal vote survey at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-15/same-sex-marriage-results-ssm/9145636?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Marriage_Law_Postal_Survey
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Crime fiction reviewer and champion of antipodean authors Craig Sisterson is back with “five books in five minutes” and he doesn’t disappoint. Craig is the author of Southern Cross Crime, The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film and TV of Australia and New Zealand. He’s my go-to-guy every time for crime fiction book recommendations. Here’s the five books he has recommended (October 2021).
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic (Backlist pick)
1979 by Val McDermid
The Last Guests by J.P. Pomare (listen to the Killer Content interview with J.P. )
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
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Australian author Richard Anderson is a second-generation farmer in Northern New South Wales where he and his wife run a beef cattle farm. Richard’s books are rural noir and authentically so because of his lived experience on the land. Richard says writing about crime allows him to “articulate my condition, to talk about my life without going on about how hard it is to be a farmer”.
I read Richard’s second crime novel, Boxed, which has one of the most inventive ways to dispose of a body that I’ve ever read.
Boxed synopsis
Dave Martin is down on his luck: his wife has left him; his farm is a failure; his house is a mess; he has withdrawn from his community and friends; and tragedy has stolen his capacity to care. He passes the time drinking too much and buying cheap tools online, treating the delivered parcels as gifts from people who care about him.
And then boxes begin to arrive in the mail: boxes that he didn’t order, but ones that everyone around him seems to want desperately. As he tries to find out the secret of the boxes, Dave is drawn into a crazy world of red herrings and wrong turns, good guys and bad, false friends and true, violence, lust, fear, revenge, and a lot, lot more. It’s not a world he understands, but is it the only one Dave can live in?
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James V. Irving is a lawyer who lives in Arlington Virginia and is also the author of two crime mysteries featuring a character called Joth Proctor, also a lawyer, who finds himself in the seedy world of petty crime, strip clubs, fraud, and death.
James, who goes by Jim, was a private detective in the 1970s before he went to law school and he has some interesting tales from that time, including dressing up as a priest to get people to talk to him for some of the cases he was investigating.
Jim wrote about his time as a private detective for the excellent website crimereads.com called “What life was really like for a private detective in the 1970s”.
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Joth Proctor is an under-employed, criminal defense lawyer with a marginal solo practice in Arlington, Virginia, where a mix of southern charm, shady business dealings, and Washington, D.C. intrigue pervade the story.
Upon the suspicious death of the wife of a close friend, Proctor enters a web of drug and alcohol abuse, family real estate deceit, and friends of questionable character whose intentions are not to be trusted. An ex-athlete, Proctor is cynical but principled, world-weary and still preoccupied with Heather Burke, the woman who jilted him years ago and remains a crucial player in his professional life.
Everyone he knows and meets seems willing to bend the law and compromise their ethical standards in the pursuit of individual self-interest.
Proctor places his reputation at risk as he navigates a world of strip clubs, corrupt cops, con men and crooks, including the sinister Jimmie Flambeau. Increasingly isolated, Joth must live by his wits in the midst of volatile circumstances and unpredictable twists of fate that place his career, his life and the lives of those he loves in jeopardy.
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Minnesota-born and raised and now Australian based author Amy Suiter Clarke’s debut book Girl, 11 has a podcaster at the heart of the story - a former social worker called Elle Castillio who is determined to solve a serial killing case where each victim is a year younger than the last.
It’s so believable you’d think it was a true life podcast.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Elle Castillo once trained as a social worker, supporting young victims of violent crime. Now she hosts a popular true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases of missing or murdered children.
After four seasons of successfully solving these cases in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: The Countdown Killer. Twenty years ago, TCK terrorized the community, kidnapping and ritualistically murdering three girls over seven days, each a year younger than the last. But after he took his eleven-year-old victim, the pattern—and the murders—abruptly stopped. No one has ever known why.
When Elle follows up on a listener tip only to discover the man’s dead body, she feels at fault. Then, within days, a child is abducted—a young girl who seems to fit suspiciously into the TCK sequence. While media and law enforcement long ago concluded that TCK was dead, Elle has never believed it. She had hoped her investigation would lay that suspicion to rest, but instead, her podcast seems to be creating new victims.
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Melbourne-based Ruth McIver’s debut book I Shot the Devil l fictionalises the satanic panic of the 1980s and 1990s in North America where society became somewhat obsessed with the souls of teens and whether heavy metal was corrupting them.
Ruth won the prestigious Richell Prize for emerging writers in 2018 for this novel.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Erin Sloane was sixteen when high school senior Andre Villiers was murdered by his friends. They were her friends, too, led by the intense, charismatic Ricky Hell. Five people went into West Cypress Road Woods the night Andre was murdered. Only three came out.
Ativan, alcohol and distance had dimmed Erin's memories of that time. But nearly twenty years later, an ageing father will bring her home. Now a journalist, she is asked to write a story about the Southport Three and the thrill-kill murder that mesmerised the country. Erin's investigation propels her closer and closer to a terrifying truth. And closer and closer to danger.
Ruth’s essential true crime reads:
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (about Ted Bundy)
The Lost Girls by Ava Benny-Morrison (murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (Ther Golden State Killer)
The shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters
Background on Ricky Kasso “The Acid King”
On June 19, 1984, seventeen-year-old Ricky Kasso murdered Gary Lauwers in what local police and the international press dubbed a “Satanic Sacrifice.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Kasso
Background on Amy Fisher
In 1992, at the age of 17, Amy shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco. At the time Amy was having an affair with Mary’s Jo’s husband, Joey Buttafuoco. Amy served seven years in prison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Fisher
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Thanks to this week’s guest Ruth McIver. I Shot the Devil is published by Hachette.
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Troll farms, Twitter, doxxing, detective dogs and serial killers…you’ll hear all about this and more from author L.A. Larkin in this episode about her crime writing, including her latest thriller Widow’s Island.
Widow’s Island is about Dr Stephanie Miller, a renowned scientist who moves with her teenage daughter to a remote island in Washington after her war hero husband dies. It’s a new start for them but lurking constantly is Stephanie’s fear that the biggest mistake of her life will be revealed.
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I was sold on reading Simon Rowell’s The Long Game when I spotted the gorgeous Golden Retriever on the cover. The dog, called Harry, is the service dog for lead character Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer. And Harry’s instincts prove to be a great help to Zoe as she investigates a murder on Victoria’s picturesque Mornington Peninsula.
I spoke to Simon a little while before the book’s release – it’s now available and I highly recommend it, especially if you love dogs and a thrilling mystery read.
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Kyle Perry’s debut The Bluffs is about a group of teen girls who go missing in the Tasmanian bushland with a cast of characters who are as wild as the landscape.
His latest book The Deep centres around a family living on the rugged coastline of Tasmania, who have run a drug ring for generations using the fishing industry to ply their illegal activities.
Born and bred in Tasmania, the island state that’s at the bottom of Australia, Kyle is also a counselor and has worked in drug and alcohol rehabs, case management and with young people.
He knows the hecticness and bleakness of drug addiction and societal issues and pressures from his years in this field.
It's these experiences and stories that have inspired his characters and thrilling plots.
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It’s almost inevitable that debut author Nicola West would end up writing crime. She’s the daughter of a police officer and when she was in Year 12 she wrote a letter to serial killer Ivan Milat as part of a school project. But more than that, Nicola is as tenacious as any main character you’ll find in crime fiction.
Nicola lives with chronic health conditions and she knows what it’s like to fight for to get answers, just like her main character Lo in her debut novel Catch us the Foxes, set in a small town with a lot of secrets.
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Australian author Michael Robotham is a superstar of the crime fiction world with his many books selling millions of copies.
His book the Secrets She Keeps was made into an Australian television series and it attracted ratings through the roof when it screened on the BBC in the UK.
And his clinical psychologist character Joe O'Loughlin, who appears in 9 books is coming to the screen, with filming currently underway in London and a big name in the main role.
Before Michael turned to writing crime fiction he was a journalist and ghostwriter in the UK. One of the books he ghostwrote was The Jigsaw Man, the autobiography of Paul Britton, a leading British forensic psychologist who also inspired the character Fitz played by Robbie Coltrane in the incredible 1990s television drama Cracker.
Michael’s latest book is When You Are Mine and at the time of this interview, he’d just won the Ian Fleming Silver Dagger Award from the UK’s Crime Writers’ Association.
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Kiersten Modglin is adept at suspense and the domestic thriller genre.
Nashville, Tennessee-based Kiersten is also masterful at using social media to build her readership. She’s written more than 25 books, self-publishing most of them and she’s great at engagement using things like being a guest at online book groups, TikTok and Instagram.
We speak about her latest book Just Married, where she find her thrilling plots and the pivotal moment during the Covid-19 pandemic where she knew she had to dig even deeper and make her writing work, not just for her loyal and growing readership but for her family too.
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I first discovered US crime author Nikki Dolson on Twitter. Twitter is actually quite a great space for discovering authors and I followed Nikki’s tweets and got curious about her work. I’m so glad I did. Her book of short stories Love and Other Criminal Behaviour delves into the many different ways to love and the many ways to end up dead. Another thing that attracted me to Nikki’s writing is that she has a fascination with contract killers and has a story about a complicated hit woman in an anthology called Dead-end Jobs.
Nikki tells me about her life in Las Vegas, why she finds contract killers fascinating (we bond over our mutual love of John Wick) and the support and importance of the association Crime Writers of Color.
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What happens when fiction becomes fact for a crime author? Maori author .P. Pomere writes psychological thrillers that probe secrets, lies and complicated lives. His latest book, The Last Guests delves into your worst nightmares when personal privacy is invaded.
But What does a crime author do when faced with a situation that would ordinarily be contained in the pages of their books? In this killer content conversation, you’ll find out about J.P.’s own encounter with true crime and what happened after.
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Kiwi Craig Sisterson of Southern Cross Crime joins Emily again to chat more crime fiction news and the second “5 Books in 5 Minutes” segment where he recommends some books for you to delve into. Based in London, Craig, the author of 'Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film and TV of Australia and New Zealand' is a well-known and loved face on the crime writing festival scene and founded the Ngaio Marsh awards for New Zealand writers.
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Matt Nable is truly a Renaissance man - he’s an actor both in Australia and America, a former rugby league player and boxer. He’s also a screenwriter and novelist, having published four books and his latest is called Still. It’s an evocative Australian noir set in 1960s Darwin that has the themes of masculinity, longing, trauma and repression weaved throughout.
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British Author Clare Boyd writes domestic noir where on the surface things look good in the lives of her characters but scratch the surface and there’s a different story underneath. In Clare’s latest book The Pretty One she mines her experience as a model from age 15 to her early twenties to tell the story of Nell, who is scouted by an agent to enter the modeling world and it’s this that sets in motion the cracking of the veneer of her family’s seeming idyllic, domestic life.
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Mark Edwards writes really scary books. The plotlines have a suburban/domestic thread of terror…all the way through. Take a scenario like a problem neighbour or a house guest and give that situation full-throttle treatment. That’s Mark Edwards! I was thrilled (and a little scared) to talk to Mark for Crime Fiction Friday. I love his books but I told him they seriously scare the crap out of me - and he was delighted to hear this.
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Anna Willett is the author of 13 thrillers that all feature strong women in tricky, often life threatening situations.
Western Australia-based Anna doesn’t shy away from gritty plot lines and there’s a very personal reason for her exploration of the traumatic events that can happen to people.
In February 1983 Anna’s dear school friend, 14-year-old Sharon Mason vanished after she got off a bus in the Perth suburb of Mosman Park.
Nine years later, Sharon’s body was found buried behind a Mosman Park shop formerly owned by a man called Arthur Greer, by a bobcat operator carrying out earthworks. Greer was later convicted of Sharon’s murder.
Anna tells Crime Fiction Friday about the impact Sharon’s murder had on her personally and how crime has a ripple effect that spreads far and wide.
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If you have been affected by anything discussed in this podcast you can call lifeline on 13 11 14
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Scottish author John Ryder’s created an intriguing, lone rider character called Grant Fletcher who is a former Royal Marine turned mercenary. As John explained, “Grant doesn’t need a GPS to find trouble!”. John himself is a carpenter by trade who has turned his hand to lots of things over the years. A love of reading has been the mainstay of his life and he’s written two Grant Fletcher books which are proving very popular.
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New Zealand author Vanda Symon is the author of five books, 4 of which feature the Detective Sam Shepard who is a refreshing, slightly awkward and tenacious young female copper.
But that’s not all…Vanda is a radio show host, a fencer, a pharmacist by trade and has a passion for the communication of science through crime writing…are you intrigued? Listen on as I chat with Vanda about lots of things, including why libraries absolutely rock!
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I stumbled upon author Garrett Russell’s collection of short stories called Murder By Sunshine and I’m so glad I did. Each story has a murder theme set in sunny Queensland.
Garrett’s had an interesting career and life, starting off in advertising in the late 60s and he’s made ads, written scripts for film and TV as well as short stories with a murderous plot.
Interestingly a thriller set in The Falklands War that Garrett wrote 40 years ago was finally published in 2020 called Prince Hunter.
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I enjoyed talking with crime fiction expert, feature writer, reviewer and author Craig Sisterson so much I’ve invited him back to Crime Fiction Friday to talk about crime and thriller fiction news and recommendations.
In this episode You’ll hear Craig’s “5 books in 5-minutes” that will be a regular spot…and if you know how much Craig LOVES talking about crime fiction you’ll appreciate this was a real challenge to keep it tight…there’s so much to rave about!
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Murder, power and intrigue in Renaissance Florence is the name of the game in the novel City of Vengeance. David Bishop, who writes under the name D.V. Bishop has spent years researching, imagining and finally bringing this historical thriller to the page, introducing us to his main character Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of the Renaissance city’s most feared criminal court.
David was a newspaper reporter in New Zealand covering murder trials in his final year on the job before he moved to the UK. Currently he runs a Creative Writing programme at an Edinburgh university and also writes for The Phantom comics.
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For every story you hear about a breakout project like a script or book being snapped up by a production company there’s hundreds...even thousands where it takes serious hustle and years to get the funds to make it happen, if it happens at all.
I thought it would be interesting to talk to someone who has got a project and a dream and the reality of how to make it happen.
Melbourne writer and actor Jamie Wilson is that person and he’s written a crime script called Borrowed Time about two Aussie bikies feuding over missing drugs in the red light district of Patong Phuket in Thailand.
Jamie had reached out wondering about how he could get info about his project out there and I thought…”why not?”.
Here’s Jamie Wilson - actor, writer, director, sometimes rideshare driver, security guard and fitness industry employee.
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Each time Aussie author Candice Fox releases a book I think “how can she top this? ” but she does...every time. Her latest crime thriller is no exception. The Chase is big, it’s bold and an absolute page-turner. It was brilliant to chat to Candice about her amazing life of crime writing including interviewing a serial killer for research and her somewhat unconventional upbringing that has prepared her for looking at some of life’s darker corners.
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For something a little different here’s a chat with Kiwi Craig Sisterson of Southern Cross Crime who champions Australian and New Zealand crime writers non-stop. Craig has turned his years of reviews and social posts from Southern Cross Crime into a book of the same name. Based in London, he’s a well-known face on the crime writing festival scene and founded the Ngaio Marsh awards for New Zealand writers. I came away from our chat excited to read more crime fiction from down under. Hope you do too!
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Justin Smith is a recognised voice from Australian talkback radio as well as writing opinion pieces in print and appearing on TV.
Now he’s turned fact to fiction, writing his first novel Babies of the Rose, which centres on three different characters whose lives intersect at Anzac Day while watching the dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance.
Each of them carries trauma from battles - some from service in overseas conflicts - and they are looking for peace within.
I spoke to Justin about how he drew on his extensive experience in news radio and covering Anzac Day services overseas at Gallipoli in Turkey and Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan to produce this debut novel.
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Ellery Kane’s life is non-stop crime. By day Ellery is a forensic psychologist and she evaluates prison inmates in California, most of whom have committed murder or another serious crime and have been in jail for a very long time, and are coming up for parole. Ellery’s the author of the detective thriller series featuring Criminal Psychologist Olivia Rockwell and Detective Will Decker. The first book in this series is Watch Her Vanish.
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If you like twists and turns in your thrillers you’ll want to read The Spiral. Written by Australian author Iain Ryan, The Spiral is gritty crime noir with a parallel fantasy storyline…think Choose Your Own Adventure or…if you were like me you’ll think Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy series.
Main character Erma is an academic living in Brisbane - an imperfect character whose somewhat messy life takes a sharp turn when she’s shot by a colleague. It’s a wild ride as readers go along with Erma as she searches for why.
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Sulari Gentill’s historical crime fiction has attracted fans around the world and won several awards. Her leading man, the charming, witty Rowland Sinclair, is the youngest of the respectable and influential Sinclair family. Rowly is seen as the black sheep among his siblings because he’s an artist. The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries are set in the 1930s, in Sydney and overseas. The first book in the so far 10 book series is A Few Right Thinking Men. I am fascinated about what it must be like to have a fictional character be such an important part of an author’s life and who better to ask that Sulari!
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Former pro snowboarder Allie Reynolds has delved into the world she knows for her debut novel Shiver. The setting: The french alps where five friends on a reunion weekend discover someone has deliberately stranded them in a deserted mountaintop resort.
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Toronto-based Ruhi Choudhary is a scientist by day and a writer by night...and weekends...and any spare time she gets. Her debut book Our Daughter’s Bones introduces readers to detective Mackenzie “Mack” Price who has a pretty traumatic back-story and an unstoppable desire for atonement through her relentless police work.
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We were first introduced to Character Detective Inspector Tom Thorne 20 years ago in the novel sleepyhead by British author and former comedian Mark Billingham. After swapping an open mic for a laptop Mark’s rocked the crime fiction genre ever since. Mark’s latest book is Cry Baby - a prequel that gives insight into DI Thorne’s back story. Mark’s also written stand alone novels including a favourite of mine - Rush of Blood.
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Based in Queensland, Australia, British born DK is the bestselling author of a series of crime novels set in Montana featuring Detectives Jenna Alton and David Kane.
DK has written more than 10 books in this series and she started writing after retirement and now has a whole new, extremely successful career and fans!
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Novelist and teacher Kimberley Starr’s crime novel Torched explores how far a mother will go to save her offspring, In his case the plot is set around a bushfire in a fictional town in the Yarra Valley, on the outskirts of Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
Phoebe is the principal of the town’s tiny school and when her teenage son Caleb is accused of starting a bushfire that kills 12 people she is thrust into a nightmare where she’s trying to protect her boy from an angry community and possible lengthy jail sentence and make her own investigations into what really happened. Could her son have done what he’s accused of?
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Power, corruption and Crime. It’s a world Journalist Michael Brissenden has covered over his long career as a journalist with Australia’s national broadcaster the ABC.
In recent years Michael’s made the foray into writing crime fiction with the novel The List and now, his latest, Dead Letters. Set in Sydney, Dead Letters has a compelling cast of characters with Counter terrorism expert Sid Allen and tenacious journalist Zephyr Wilde at the heart of the action that centres around a political assignation and a decades old unsolved murder case.
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Dr Chris Merritt was a diplomat before returning to the UK and retraining as a psychologist.
He began writing in 2014 and is now the published author of 6 books including the terrifying thriller Knock Knock. In Knock Knock Chris delves into the hateful realm of incels, the slang term for Involuntary Celibates. It’s a world online that’s spilled into actual physical attacks and murder - these are men who congregate in a twisted community bonded by their hatred of women because they are unable to form intimate relationships.
Knock Knock is the first of three books in the Lockhart and Green series about ex-soldier Dan Lockhart, now a murder investigator in London’s met police and American-born clinical psychologist Lexie Green who treats post-traumatic stress disorder at a mental health clinic.
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Will Dean’s latest book The Last Thing to Burn has been described as “Room meets Misery”...that was enough to intrigue me and I can tell you I WAS hooked! I read this book in 2 days. I haven’t been able to achieve that level of attention since before my first child was born and that’s a few years ago now.
The Last thing to burn is tense, heartbreaking, with glimmers of hope and will have you thinking about the characters long after you’ve finished. Will has delved into the shocking, often hidden crime of human trafficking and the main character Thanh is, in my opinion, one of the best female protagonists in any book I’ve read in recent years.
Will lives deep in a Swedish forest - that’s also intriguing...
Will Dean
The Last Thing to Burn is published in Australia by hachette and in UK/Europe by Hodder & Stoughton
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Natalie Conyer came to writing crime fiction later in life after she retired from a demanding corporate career.
Her debut novel Present Tense is set in post-apartheid South Africa, where she was born, with with the main character a grizzled and complicated detective Schalk Lourens.
Natalie won best debut crime fiction of the Australian Crime Writers Association’s Ned Kelly Awards with judges praising the book’s 'setting, flawed characters, and complex, taut plot’.
Natalie Conyer
Present Tense is published by Clan Destine Press
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Ellie Marney dove deep in her research to write her latest book None Shall Sleep.
It’s fiction set in the early 1980s about two teens enlisted by the FBI to interview serial killers.
Ellie’s been heavily inspired by John Douglas who wrote Mind Hunter about interviewing serial killers and violent offenders, which led to the development of the FBI’s violent criminal apprehension program.
Ellis has written many Young Adult books, most with a crime theme and None Shall Sleep weaves her own fascination with true crime and the public’s captivation with serial killers and police investigations...and placed two teens at the heart of the story.
Ellie Marney
None Shall Sleep is published by Allen & Unwin
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Kiwi author Stephen Johnson wrote about what he knew when embarking on his first crime book. He knew the cutthroat world of tv news and also the party hard culture of European bus tours after a stint as a tour guide in the 1980s.
His debut Tugga’s Mob moves between present day and the 1980s, following the life and death of a small-town New Zealand country girl on her big European Adventure...that turned into a nightmare.
Stephen Johnson
Tugga’s Mob is published by Clan Destine Press.
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Emily is the author of Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
With thanks to author Stephen Johnson and Vikki Petraitis for reading the extract from Tugga’s Mob.
Pleased be advised that Tugga’s Mob deals with themes of sexual assault
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Canadian-Irish author Noelle Holten has spent years funneling her love of reading crime fiction into popular blog Crime Book Junkie. I’d heard about Noelle a few years ago from a mutual police friend we had, in fact they shared an office together in a town in Staffordshire, England so I was thrilled to speak to her for this podcast. It really is a small world!
In 2015 Noelle started writing her very own crime novel, drawing on her almost 20 years experience as a probation officer.
That book is Dead Inside, introducing us to Detective Constable Maggie Jamieson. Noelle didn’t stop there and now there’s two more books featuring DC Jamieson and more on the way.
Noelle Holten
Dead Inside is published by One More Chapter
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Emily is the author of Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
With thanks to author Noelle Holten and Paul Verhoeven for reading the extract from Dead Inside. You can read Noelle’s popular blog here: https://crimebookjunkie.co.uk/
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Australian author Aoife Clifford started crime writing with short stories and her inspiration came from what was happening at the time in her life - she had preschool age children and was on the preschool committee so she set a murder at a kindergarten. The story, aptly called Kill-Dead-Garten won the prestigious Scarlet Stiletto award from Sisters in Crime.
From there she’s kept writing and produced two fantastic crime novels - All These Perfect Strangers and Second Sight.
Having studied law, Aoife likes to weave the lesser known but no less important aspects of the law into her plots.
In All These Perfect Strangers the main character is studying law at university and in Second Sight, her protagonist is a city lawyer who returns to her country hometown to get information for the biggest case of her career.
Aoife Clifford
All These Perfect Strangers and Second Sight are published by Simon & Schuster Australia.
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Hermit is a stunner of a debut novel from author Steve White who goes under the pen name S.R. white.
It’s his first published novel but he’s been writing for years, admitting he’s got a drawer full of unpublished book drafts and hundreds of rejection letters.
He hit a sweet spot with Hermit - it’s a moody, intriguing story set in a regional Australian town where a local shopkeeper is found murdered and a man, who had gone off the radar years ago, is found at the scene.
S.R White
Hermit is published by Hachette Australia
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Emily is the author of Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill
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If you’re always looking for your next thriller or whodunnit, join Emily Webb (writer and co-host of Australian True Crime Podcast) for Crime Fiction Friday where she'll be talking to some of the most successful authors in the genre about how they create their characters, their stories and their crime scenes. You'll meet new writers on the scene too.
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