CRIME CULTURE – True Crime News Weekly

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.

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.