Australian crime fiction

Chris Hammer's Scrublands – now a must-watch crime drama

16 November, 2023

Back in 2019, we were infatuated with Australian author Chris Hammer’s novel, Scrublands. Set in a drought-shrivelled town in New South Wales, this brutal whydunnit has been made into a four-part crime drama which begins airing Thursday 16 November in Australia via Stan. At 9pm…

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Australian crime drama Black Snow comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

21 September, 2023

If you thought Australian television’s finest output was confined to 1990s afternoon soap operas, then prepare to recalibrate. The country has produced numerous gripping crime dramas over the past five or six years, and the latest – Black Snow – arrives in the UK at…

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The Graveyard Shift by Maria Lewis

By RoughJustice

20 September, 2023

For Tinsel Munroe, hosting a late night radio show in Melbourne isn’t just a stepping stone toward a more successful career but something of a labour of love. Cult watching horror movies was a formative experience for her, and one she hasn’t outgrown. She enjoys…

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After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 June, 2023

Regular Crime Fiction Lover readers will recall that The Woman in the Library won Best Indie Novel in our 2022 awards. Now Australian publisher Ultimo Press has released After She Wrote him in the UK, a book that was initially published as Crossing the Lines…

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When We Fall by Aoife Clifford

By DeathBecomesHer

10 May, 2023

It’s with great reluctance that Alex Tillerson is spending time in the strangely insular Australian coastal town of Merritt – and there are many reasons why she really doesn’t want to be there. For starters, the place brings back unhappy memories of childhood visits to…

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Dark Mode by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

By crimefictionlover

17 April, 2023

Set in Sydney, Australia in 2017, Dark Mode is a contemporary thriller and a debut crime novel for Ashley Kalagian Blunt, a writer originally from Canada who has lived in several countries before settling Down Under. With Dark Mode, you don’t get the hot, dusty,…

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Exiles by Jane Harper

By DeathBecomesHer

6 March, 2023

It seems like 2023 is turning out to be the year of crime fiction farewells. First came the end, for the time being at least, of Elly Griffiths’ series featuring forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway; now, thousands of miles and continents away it is time to…

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Dead Man's Creek by Chris Hammer

By DeathBecomesHer

7 January, 2023

There’s many an Aussie author who has travailed the dusty trails, inhospitable terrain and forgotten towns of the Outback in recent years – Garry Disher, Jane Harper and Chris Hammer, for example. The latter returns to the country’s rural landscape for Dead Man’s Creek, the…

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Chris Hammer's Scrublands – now a must-watch crime drama

Australian crime drama Black Snow comes to BBC Four

The Graveyard Shift by Maria Lewis

After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

When We Fall by Aoife Clifford

Dark Mode by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Exiles by Jane Harper

Dead Man's Creek by Chris Hammer

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