CRIME CULTURE

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

November 9, 2020 April Shepherd 0

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 0

‘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 0

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 0

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 2

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 0

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 0

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.