Fiona Hardy

Each December, as we barrel towards Christmas, I really enjoy looking back over the year in crime. There are books that feel like they've been a part of the crime canon for years; there are some that I still refer…

After 12 years, this is my final dead write column. It’s grown in size to take over an entire page (which worked for me, since I always have far too much to say about every book), and I’ve worked with…

CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Exiles by Jane Harper Much to the delight of just about every crime reader in Australia and overseas, The Dry’s Aaron Falk returns in Jane Harper’s latest small-town investigation. Falk’s not in his hometown…

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Better the Blood by Michael Bennett More than 150 years ago, on the top of Maunga Whakairoiro – or as the…

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Stone Town by Margaret Hickey A teenage boy takes a girl and her sister to Stone Town’s eerie bushland in the…

Our crime specialist shares 11 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Wake by Shelley Burr It has been nearly 20 years since Evelyn McCreery went missing. She went to sleep one night,…

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH When We Fall by Aoife Clifford As she walks along the beach with her mother, discouraged barrister Alex Tillerson wishes she…

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH The Cane by Maryrose Cuskelly The northern Queensland town of Quala is reeling: oneof its own is missing. Young Janet McClymont…

It’s honestly been such a strong year in Australian crime fiction that I could have easily made this entire list up of local writers—Australia just has some of the best talent out there. From debut authors like Jacqueline Bublitz’s devastating…

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Canticle Creek Adrian Hyland Leading Senior Constable Jesse Redpath thinks she has the lie of the land about right in the…

Our crime specialist shares 9 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH The Shadow House by Anna Downes When Alex drives up to her new house with her teenage son Ollie and new…

Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month. CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH I Shot the Devil by Ruth McIver Ruth McIver’s manuscript of I Shot the Devil won Australia’s Richell Prize for Emerging…