CRIME CULTURE

CRIME CULTURE: On Making BAD Great! An Interview with Catherine du Peloux Menagé

November 26, 2021 Therese Taylor

INTERVIEW: Excitement is building as the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival returns in under a week to the State Library of New South Wales between 2-5 December. From Rural Noir to Investigative Journalism to Cozy Crime to Indigenous perspectives on the criminal justice system, there will be plenty of diverse views and opinions from a star-studded guest list across crime fiction and true crime. The Festival’s artistic director, Catherine du Peloux Menagé, speaks to Therese Taylor for True Crime News Weekly about what audiences can expect.

CRIME CULTURE: Sydney goes BAD with Crime Festival

November 23, 2021 Serkan Ozturk

Investigative journalist Louise Milligan, actor-turned-crime fiction writer Bryan Brown, and star podcaster Meshel Laurie are just a few of the reasons this year’s return of the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival is expected to be make it bigger and badder than ever before.

CRIME CULTURE: CSI Told You Lies

October 30, 2021 Irfan Yusuf

BOOK REVIEW: Author, podcaster and true crime fanatic Meshel Laurie doesn’t fail with her stated aim to give victims “a voice through forensics” in her latest book, ‘CSI Told You Lies’, writes Irfan Yusuf.

ART, SEX ABUSE, FRAUD, MURDER, SUICIDE! Wicked life & death of Herbert Hepburn Calvert glimpsed for first time after 100 year cover-up

October 12, 2021 Therese Taylor

EXCLUSIVE: At the time of his death almost 100 years ago, in 1923, artist Herbert Hepburn Calvert was lauded as “one of the best known painters of Australian birds.” Yet his whimsical but realistic depictions of this nation’s birdlife hid a much darker, tormented soul and criminal life. That ended with a supposed late-night fall in a busy Adelaide hotel while he likely happened to be travelling with a much younger but equally-as-tormented “artist” and convicted felon.

CRIME CULTURE: Banquet – The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders

September 11, 2021 Therese Taylor

BOOK REVIEW: The publication of ‘Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders’ – a detailed account by investigative journalist Debi Marshall of the unsolved serial murders of young men in Adelaide 40 years ago is important, writes Therese Taylor.

IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK & BAD! Sydney Crime Festival to feature women writers this month before crowds return in December

September 7, 2021 Serkan Ozturk

The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival is back again this year with not even a dangerous Covid Crisis being able to kill it off, with weekly online talks featuring four best-selling female authors taking place all throughout September before the festival returns for live, in-person events in early December.

CRIME CULTURE: The Sins Of The Sheikh

August 30, 2021 Irfan Yusuf

BOOK REVIEW: The giant shopping malls and skyscrapers of Dubai are a playground for a patriarchy that only pays lip service to human rights, suggests Irfan Yusuf, as he casts his eye over 60 Minutes journalist Tom Steinfort’s new book ‘The Sins of the Sheikh’.

CRIME CULTURE: My Father The Murderer

August 6, 2021 Irfan Yusuf

BOOK REVIEW: ‘My Father The Murderer’ is a troubling rumination on the effects and aftershocks of domestic violence, writes our new Crime Culture editor Irfan Yusuf.

CRIME CULTURE: The Information Editor

April 24, 2021 Miles Hunt

In his latest novel, ‘The Information Editor’, author and lawyer Miles Hunt imagines a world in the not too-distant-future where unbridled neoliberal greed and rampant technological authoritarianism have truly taken hold.

CRIME CULTURE: Operation Clinker

April 16, 2021 April Shepherd

When Rod Mason was recruited to stop suspected drug trafficking from Hong Kong to Australia, he got a lot more than he bargained for. ‘Operation Clinker’, Rod Mason’s debut book, tells the story of one of the biggest potential heroin imports in Australia’s history, writes April Shepherd.

INTERVIEW: Pure Narco – An unlikely friendship & journey of redemption

November 9, 2020 April Shepherd

CRIME CULTURE: Journalist and author Jesse Fink spent two years of his life interviewing and befriending Luis Navia, one of the biggest cocaine traffickers in US history. A journey of redemption followed and an extraordinary untold story from one of the most hostile industries on earth. April Shepherd talked to both for True Crime News Weekly.

CRIME CULTURE: Electric Blue by Paul Verhoeven

October 27, 2020 Sarah McLean

‘Electric Blue’ is a sprawling cinematic insight into the New South Wales police force and its forensics team. Sarah McLean with this review.

CRIME CULTURE: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

October 10, 2020 Therese Taylor

After an unsuccessful heist, a bank robber takes refuge as well a number of hostages in an apartment up for sale. Therese Taylor with this review of a Swedish crime fiction tale that decidedly goes against the grain when it comes to Nordic noir.

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: A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull

April 27, 2020 Gary Johnston

The former prime minister’s memoirs do stack up against the better political biographies in a torrid field but it shows a man forlornly in love with himself while ignoring the many calamities around him, writes Gary Johnston.

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.

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.