Ngaio read this: top Kiwi crime writers of 2018 awarded
The strength in depth of New Zealand’s crime fiction has already featured on the site and in March we picked 12 Kiwi authors to try, so choosing the winners of the annual Ngaio Marsh Awards must prove quite a test for the judges. Nevertheless, they’ve…
Crime fiction improv hits Melbourne
If you’re in Melbourne, Australia in mid-September, it’d be a crime not to catch up with the city’s Fringe Festival, which this year includes Murder Village, an improve entertainment act who will be creating original whodunits throughout a week-long engagement. This comedic murder mystery will…
The Waiting Room
Written by Emily Bleeker — Children’s book illustrator Veronica is settling into family life in North Carolina with her new baby, Sophie, and it’s wonderful. Her husband Nick is supportive and pulling his weight and things are looking grand. Then, Veronica awakes one night to…
Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
Do you remember much about your 31st birthday? No? Me neither, but Andrea ‘Andy’ Oliver’s 31st is about to stick in her memory forever. Andy is a pretty ordinary woman. She tries, but usually she fails. In fact her life is littered with things she tried to…
Little Liar
Written by Lisa Ballantyne — Here’s an author who has already made waves with her work. Lisa Ballantyne’s debut The Guilty One was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2014 and has since been translated into nearly 30 languages, while her second book, Redemption Road,…