Scintillating short crime stories by Australian woman.
Narrated by Susanna Lobez
... moreClaire McKenna won 3rd prize in the 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Awards in “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring”. Hailing from the remote outer suburban wilderness of Melbourne, Claire is a short story writer, novelist, adventurer and urban explorer up to no good. She is currently writing a follow-up fantasy series that aims to be more confusing and confronting than her last.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Best Investigative story, 2013
Sandi Wallace dreamed of being a crime writer from around the age of six. Her first big win for a crime story was for “Silk Versus Sierra” in 2013, and on the Awards night, she landed a publisher for her debut crime novel… the beginning of her dream come true.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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In a world where the neutralisation of emotions is compulsory, an enforcement officer risks everything when she starts to succumb to her feelings.
2nd Prize Scarlet Stiletto Award and Cross Genre Award
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“Brought to Book” won Kath Harper the Body in the Library First Prize in 2012. Kath grew up in a family of word nerds, and worked as a nanny/housemaid, fruit packer, customer service officer and school teacher before finding her niche as an editor, indexer and proofreader. She has won or been highly commended in a number of story-writing competitions, including the Body in the Library and Malice Domestic categories of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards. The isolation of freelance work drew her to community theatre; she has written and/or performed in several plays. Now retired, she continues to write short stories, and during COVID lockdowns entertained her grandsons with a fantasy adventure serial.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Much Ado About Nunning” by Western Australian author, Helen Iles, won the prize for Best Film Idea in 2012. Helen writes crime fiction, adult fiction, young adult fiction, textbooks, poetry, and children’s picture books.
Helen has been published locally and internationally. Her novel, Dark Secrets was long-listed for the Davitt Award 2019. She has won the Bronze Quill three times, the National Horror Writers Award, the Best Film Script Idea in the Scarlet Stiletto competition, and numerous other national awards. Helen is also an Editor, teaches Creative Writing, manages Linellen Press, a small publishing house south of Perth, and is a children’s book illustrator.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“Fish for Freedom” won the Malice Domestic prize in the 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Awards for WA author Sarah Evans. She has since had many short stories and novels published both in Australia and overseas. Last year her crime series was optioned for TV.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Aoife Clifford’s story, “Quit”, took out the award for funniest short story in the 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Awards and was runner up in the Body in the Library Award. When Aoife won the Scarlet Stiletto in 2007, she was at home with two small children, suffering terrible morning sickness with what was to be her third. Now her eldest has left home and her fourth crime novel came out in 2024.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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At the time of winning the Scarlet Stiletto Young Writers’ Award in 2007, Jane Blechynden was a ten-year-old schoolgirl whose biggest concern was whether she should experiment with a side fringe. The Sisters in Crime award inspired Jane to continue writing, and she went on to win the Tim Winton award in 2009. Although Jane is still an avid reader, her literary career is now focused on writing exemplary patient notes in her role as a doctor.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Lesley Truffle won 3rd prize in the Scarlet Stiletto Awards in 2010 for “A Man of Fashion”. She was then an aspiring novelist, then walking the beach at 3am plotting a story about women behaving badly. Two of her novels, Hotel du Barry and The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte, have been published by Harper Collins in Australia and also in Spain, Italy and Germany. Lesley was born in London but came out to Australia when young. She has worked as a teacher, photographer, hotel maid, fringe actor and in art galleries, nightclubs and minimal wage jobs too ghastly to mention. She is currently living on an island and working on a new manuscript.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“Still Life” won Dianne Gray the second prize in the 2000 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. She has taken out several category awards. She has since published four novels and a book of award-winning short stories. She has won numerous national and international writing awards and loves nothing better than a good old-fashioned murder mystery. She lives in peaceful bliss on a sugar cane farm in regional Queensland where she tests out new stories on baby goats, kookaburras, old dogs, and chickens. When she's not writing or endlessly procrastinating, she can be found renovating her 140-year-old farmhouse.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
Copyright Sisters in Crime Australia
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