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/

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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.

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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:

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·    Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill 

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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

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Crime fiction reviewer Craig Sisterson is back on Killer Content to chat news including the longlist for the 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 below). Craig also does his “five books in five minutes” segment.

Ngaio Marsh Awards 2022 Longlist

Winners of the CWA Daggers 

Craig is the Commissioning Editor for an anthology of crime fiction short stories called DARK DEEDS GO DOWN UNDER published by Clan Destine Press and author of Southern Cross Crime, The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film and TV of Australia and New Zealand. 

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 

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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.

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• 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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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.

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Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill 

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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

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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. 

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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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