Twelve adventurous Australian writers respond to the challenge of creating a hybrid crime story. Murder, mayhem and malice intercept with science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, fairy tale and romance writing to create an unholy miasma, the likes of which you have never encountered before.

Expect the unexpected. Prepare for the confrontation. The crime fiction story has been invaded by marauding genres. The boundaries have been blurred. You have been warned. A cross genre crime anthology featuring Australia's best writers of crime playing with genre boundaries. There's some SF, Fantasy, Horror, Magic Realism.

Authors include Garry Disher, Marele Day, Robert Wallace, Jean Bedford, Peter Corris, Terry Dowling, and others.

Contents:

  • Introduction - Stuart Coupe
  • The Kid and the Man from Pinkertons - Marele Day
  • My Brother Jack -  Garry Disher
  • Finding Fire - Jean Bedford
  • And Then She Kissed Him  - Steve Wright
  • Voyeur Night - Robert Hood
  • Arizona Dawn - Peter Corris
  • Blue Groper - Robert Wallace
  • The Big Fairy Tale Sleep - Domenic Cadden
  • Fear-Me-Now - Terry Dowling
  • I Am My Father's Daughter - Bill Congreve
  • I Am Dying Egypt, Dying - Kerry Greenwood
  • Sensible Shoes - Jan McKemmish
Author

Stuart Coupe

Stuart Coupe is a journalist, editor, writer and book reviewer in Australia with fingers in a lot of pies. While a student in Adelaide, Stuart Coupe co-edited the fanzine Roadrunner, an experience that led to further work as a freelance writer. He consolidated his career in the music industry as manager of acts such as the Hoodoo Gurus and Paul Kelly. He has since worked as a promoter, record label director, freelance writer, retailer, editor and author. Coupe's writing on the music industry has appeared regularly in Australian newspapers and magazines.

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Marele Day

Marele Day grew up in Sydney and graduated from Sydney University with BA (Hons). Her work experience ranges from fruit picking to academic teaching, and she has worked as a freelance editor. She has travelled extensively and lived in Italy, France and Ireland. Travels include a voyage by yacht from Cairns to Singapore which resulted in near shipwreck in the Java Sea.  She now resides on the New South Wales north coast.

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Series: Claudia Valentine

Garry Disher

Gary Disher was born in 1949 and grew up on his parents' farm in South Australia. He gained post graduate degrees from Adelaide and Melbourne Universities. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first short story collection. He travelled widely overseas, before returning to Australia, where he taught creative writing, finally becoming a full time writer in 1988. He has written more than 40 titles, including general and crime fiction, children's books, textbooks, and books about the craft of writing.

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Series: Alan Auhl

Series: Challis and Destry

Series: Charlie Deravin

Series: Hirsch

Series: Wyatt

Jean Bedford

Jean Bedford was born in Cambridge, England in 1946 and came to Australia in 1947. She was brought up in Victoria and after university taught English as a second language and worked as a journalist. She was Literary Editor of the National Times and now works as a literary consultant. In 1982 she won the Stanford Writing Fellowship and travelled to the United States to take it up. Jean Bedford's short stories have appeared in Nation Review, The National Times and Meanjin. 

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Series: Anna Southwood

Series: Cliff Hardy

Series: Noel Baker

Steve Wright

Steve Wright was born in London and now lives in Coledale, NSW. He has written full-time for television, film and the stage since 1983.

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Series: Barry Donovan

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3
1992
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1991
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1990

Robert Hood

Robert Hood was born on the 24th of July, 1951, in Rydalmere, NSW. He attended Rydalmere Primary School, and then -- when his family moved to Sydney's northern beaches in the 1960s -- Collaroy Plateau Primary School. By the time he reached high school, he had developed a taste for weird movies. In his first year at Narrabeen Boys' High School, he wrote an assignment on H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. He became obsessed with science fiction and fantasy stories, but read anything he could get his hands on. It's said that his classroom compositions became progressively longer and weirder. 

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Peter Corris

Peter Corris was born in Stawell, Victoria in 1942. When he was five his family left the country for Melbourne and he was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne. After taking a Master's degree at Monash University and a PhD at the Australian National University (both in History), he was an academic, teaching and researching in various universities and a College of Advanced Education until 1975 when he gave up academia for journalism. He was literary editor of The National Times, 1980-81. He has travelled and lived for short periods in the Pacific, Britain, Europe and the USA. 

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Series: Cliff Hardy

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2019
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1987
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Series: Luke Dunlop

1992

Series: Ray Crawley

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
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Monday, January 7, 2019
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Thursday, August 30, 2018
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Monday, January 16, 2017
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Monday, January 2, 2017
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
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Friday, February 5, 2016
Blog Christmas / New Year Break Reading
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Saturday, January 2, 2016
Review Review - GUN CONTROL, Peter Corris
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Blog Currently Reading - Gun Control, Peter Corris
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Review Review - SILENT KILL, Peter Corris
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Blog CR - Silent Kill, Peter Corris
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Review IF I TELL YOU... I'LL HAVE TO KILL YOU - Michael Robotham (editor)
Karen Chisholm
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Blog CR - If I Tell You.....
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Blog CR - The Dunbar Case, Peter Corris
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Blog Currently Reading - Hard Labour, The Crime Factory
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Blog Currently Reading - Follow the Money, Peter Corris
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Review CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC, edited by Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood
Karen Chisholm
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Blog Currently Reading - Torn Apart, Peter Corris
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Blog 2009 Ned Kelly Winners
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - Crosstown Traffic edited by Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Review OPEN FILE - Peter Corris
Sunnie Gill
Monday, July 14, 2008
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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Karen Chisholm
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Blog Currently Reading - Open File, Peter Corris
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Blog Rest Days are good
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has a degree in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written twenty novels, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D'Arcy, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. In 1996 she published a book of essays on female murderers called Things She Loves: Why women Kill. The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues which was a great success. Kerry has written fifteen books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them. Kerry Greenwood has worked as a folk singer, factory hand, director, producer, translator, costume-maker, cook and is currently a solicitor. When she is not writing, she works as a locum solicitor for the Victorian Legal Aid. She is also the unpaid curator of seven thousand books, three cats (Attila, Belladonna and Ashe) and a computer called Apple (which squeaks). She embroiders very well but cannot knit. She has flown planes and leapt out of them (with a parachute) in an attempt to cure her fear of heights (she is now terrified of jumping out of planes but can climb ladders without fear). She can detect second-hand bookshops from blocks away and is often found within them. For fun Kerry reads science fiction/fantasy and detective stories. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered wizard. When she is not doing any of the above she stares blankly out of the window.

Books:

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Series: Corinna Chapman

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7
2019
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6
2011
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5
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2007
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Series: Phyrne Fisher

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1992
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1992
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1991

Series: Sherlock Holmes

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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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sally906
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Review SHADOW ALLEY - Lucy Sussex
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