G. L. Marlowe

CRIME CULTURE: Either Side of Midnight by Benjamin Stevenson

September 21, 2020 G. L. Marlowe

Murder or suicide? This is the question which lies at the heart of Benjamin Stevenson’s sophomore novel ‘Either Side of Midnight’. G. L. Marlowe with this review of a gripping detective fiction story that foregrounds male mental health in a dodgy media world.

CRIME CULTURE: ‘Cults Uncovered’ and ‘Unsolved Murders’ by Emily G. Thompson

March 7, 2020 G. L. Marlowe

Northern Irish journalist and podcaster, Emily G. Thompson, has released two new books in the same month, with the promise of ‘uncovering’ bizarre cults and mysterious unsolved murders. G. L. Marlowe takes a look at both and gives her verdict.

“I’M ALWAYS LOOKING CLOSELY AT TRUE CRIMES & STORIES THAT ARE STRANGER THAN FICTION”! An interview with novelist J. P. Pomare

January 27, 2020 G. L. Marlowe

INTERVIEW: On the back of his latest true crime thriller ‘In The Clearing’, author J. P. Pomare sat down with our own G. L. Marlowe to discuss cults, the darkness that permeates his novels and how the relationship between memory and truth informs his work.

CRIME CULTURE: In The Clearing by J. P. Pomare

January 22, 2020 G. L. Marlowe

Using Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s infamous The Family cult as inspiration, Melbourne-based author J. P. Pomare has produced another stunning thriller on the back of his heralded debut novel ‘Call Me Evie’, writes G. L. Marlowe.

CRIME CULTURE: Cold Case Investigations by Xanthe Mallett

December 4, 2019 G. L. Marlowe

A book written by one of Australia’s most renowned forensic anthropologist full of Australian cold cases is bound to be a gripping read. Until it isn’t, writes G. L. Marlowe.

THE BATTLE OF KELLETT STREET! The day gangs of men pulled their razors out for Tilly Devine & Kate Leigh

September 27, 2019 G. L. Marlowe

HISTORICAL CRIME: It was August 8, 1929. Officers stepped over shards of broken glass and stones on the infamous Kellett Street, near Kings Cross. Blood trailed out from a flat and onto the narrow bitumen. There Tilly Devine’s men had faced off against the men of her nemesis, the incarcerated drug dealer Kate Leigh.

THE POISON FOR RAT & HUSBAND ALIKE! Yvonne Fletcher and the trail of death in Newtown

August 26, 2019 G. L. Marlowe

SERIAL KILLERS: Thallium was a popular poison to catch the many rats that resided in Newtown just after World War Two. It also became the choice method for a murderous wife who wanted to do away with violent or just troublesome husbands, writes G. L. Marlowe.