MY CRIME READING FAVES
Dave’s Shelf L-M Since I blundered onto The Maltese Falcon in the school library at age 14 (I was looking for a book about knights and squires and thought it sounded swords and shields like) […]
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THE LIZARD IS BACK
The Murder In The — series featuring rock-muso Lizard Zirk has a new life. Thanks to some welcome elastic thinking by those involved in the Untapped project, a bunch of Australian novels have been resurrected […]
2020 – A YEAR IN REVIEW
JANUARY 2020 – the year is flat out from the get go. I arrive back in Sydney from NYC after doing last minute research on my next novel OVER MY DEAD BODY. The first murder […]
We Need A Little Faith Hope and Charity
2020 has been an awful year. While the shadow of Covid has covered the year in darkness it’s not been the only blight. I think of Sydney at the time of the 2000 Olympics and […]
OVER MY DEAD BODY -Reviews
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REVIEWS FOR MY BOOKS
I don’t generally like sticking reviews up on my site even though I am lucky they are normally good. But when a reader takes the trouble to write to me then I think it’s worth […]
SHERLOCK RETURNS!
Out soon! OVER MY DEAD BODY Dr Georgette Watson is frustrated. Her ground-breaking cryonics research has hit a brick wall. She has demonstrated that she can `bring back from the dead’ hamsters snap frozen for […]
NED KELLY CATCHES A BREAK
It was terrific news to learn that my novel of last year RIVER OF SALT had been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian Crime Fiction. When I first started writing crime fiction […]
Books and Songs
Sometimes in my brain the link between a book I write and a piece of music is incredibly strong. The strongest was this year when I wrote the song No Good Can Come From This […]
LIFE OF CRIME NOW ON YOU TUBE
A video of my library talk with @tonydurant is now available on my You Tube channel so if you couldn’t make it you can get to hear it anyway. The event includes readings, songs by […]