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Our mission is to help audiences discover great crime/thriller writing from Australian & New Zealand storytellers. Get our HRF Keating Award shortlisted book
Joined October 2019
For those asking at festivals and elsewhere about some of the great Aussie and Kiwi crime writing on offer from days past and days newer, and who else you should try, may we humbly proffer our readers' guide. like a Lonely Planet for exploring an area of the crime writing world
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RT @auscrimewriters: CONGRATULATIONS to first time author Shaeden Berry for her amazing book Down the Rabbit Hole which has been shortliste….
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RT @auscrimewriters: CONGRATULATIONS to first time author Riley James for her amazing book The Chilling which has been shortlisted for the….
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RT @auscrimewriters: CONGRATULATIONS to first time author Mitch Jennings for his amazing book A Town Called Treachery which has been shortl….
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RT @auscrimewriters: CONGRATULATIONS to first time author Lisa Kenway for her amazing book All You Took From Me which has been shortlisted….
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RT @auscrimewriters: CONGRATULATIONS to first time author Martine Kropkowski for her amazing book Everywhere We Look which has been shortli….
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Congratulations to Martie Kropkowski, who today was named among the shortlistees for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, for EVERY WHERE YOU LOOK
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Congratulations to Lisa Kenway, who today was named among the shortlistees for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, for ALL YOU TOOK FROM ME.@auscrimewriters @transitlounge2.
At The Avenue Albert Park Lisa Kenway’s amazing psych thriller All You Took From Me!
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Congratulations to Riley James, who today was named among the shortlistees for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, for THE CHILLING.@auscrimewriters @AllenAndUnwin.
Today in KYD: Read an extract from 'The Chilling' by Riley James, following an Australian scientist who faces the ultimate test of survival as mystery unfolds in the isolated Macpherson Station. Suspense, secrets & a race against time await. @AllenAndUnwin
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Congratulations to Shaeden Berry, who today was named among the shortlistees for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, for DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE @auscrimewriters @echo_publishing.
Our Nov #DebutSpotlight pick is Down the Rabbit Hole by Shaeden Berry, a reflection on grief left unchecked; what it means to be a mother, a daughter; and all the terrible ways we can hurt one another. @echo_publishing. Stay tuned for our Q&A with Shaeden!
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Congratulations to Mitch Jennings, who today was named among the shortlistees for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, for A TOWN CALLED TREACHERY.
From journalist to novelist: Mitch Jennings shares his journey from the AWC Novel Writing Essentials course to a book deal with HarperCollins!. You can read all about it here:
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RT @auscrimewriters: CONGRATULATIONS: Ned Kelly Award, Best Debut Crime Fiction .Shortlist. Down the Rabbit Hole, Shaeden Berry. The Chilli….
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Here's some cool folks repping Aussie and Kiwi crime at one of the world's best festivals, @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime, last weekend: Rachel Amphlett, @PetronellaMcGov, @emstylesauthor, @hammerNow, @writerJJohnson, @kate_kemp, @craigsisterson #SouthernCrossCrime #HIFChairs
Great to see some slices of ANZ crime fiction, aka #SouthernCrossCrime, on show in bookshop at last weekend's prestigious @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime in UK. @kate_kemp and @hammerNow repped Oz Noir onstage this year, with several other Kiwi/Aussie authors in attendance.
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RT @cross_crime: For those asking at festivals and elsewhere about some of the great Aussie and Kiwi crime writing on offer from days past….
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Great to see some slices of ANZ crime fiction, aka #SouthernCrossCrime, on show in bookshop at last weekend's prestigious @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime in UK. @kate_kemp and @hammerNow repped Oz Noir onstage this year, with several other Kiwi/Aussie authors in attendance.
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RT @ngaiomarshaward: Flashback: two years ago, Dame Ngaio biographer Dr Joanne Drayton & Māori filmmaker @MBennettBooks at Marlborough Book….
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RT @murdermayheman1: This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three very different crime novels that moved from rural Victoria to sunny….
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This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three new crime novels by ‘Downunder’ authors P. A Thomas, D. V. Bishop and Margaret Hickey. Carnival Of Lies by D. V. Bishop (Macmillan, 1 J…
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A quartet of Aussie & Kiwi crimelovers in famed beer tent at @HarrogateFest #theakstonscrime in UK over the weekend. Great to see some ANZ flavour, onstage and off, at one of the world's biggest & best book festivals. @writerJJohnson @hammerNow @emstylesauthor @craigsisterson
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RT @CriFiLover: We've heard a whisper that The Grapevine by debut author @kate_kemp is a tasty read. Here's our review by @SandraMangan_ .h….
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Nothing ever happens in suburban Canberra... until a human foot is found in the woods. 12-year-old Tammy investigates in this mystery set in 1979...
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Great to see @kate_kemp bringing an antipodean touch to the hugely popular Critics' New Blood panel at @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime in the UK over the weekend. Kate joins the likes of fellow ANZ authors @hammerNow, @emstylesauthor, and @MBennettBooks as New Blood alumni.
It’s high noon for the Critics’ New Blood panel, featuring @SpacemanDan13 AE Goldin @kate_kemp and @RobBurnett, with Mick Herron as chair. #TheakstonsCrime
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RT @emstylesauthor: The big green chair interviews with @craigsisterson in the sunshine (after a running jump to get up there) @HarrogateFe….
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