Southern Cross Crime
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Our mission is to help audiences discover great crime/thriller writing from Australian & New Zealand storytellers. Get our HRF Keating Award shortlisted book
For those asking at festivals and elsewhere about some of the great Aussie and Kiwi crime writing on offer from days past and days newer, and who else you should try, may we humbly proffer our readers' guide... like a Lonely Planet for exploring an area of the crime writing world
Here's some cool folks repping Aussie and Kiwi crime at one of the world's best festivals, @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime, last weekend: Rachel Amphlett, @PetronellaMcGov, @emstylesauthor, @hammerNow, @writerJJohnson, @kate_kemp, @craigsisterson #SouthernCrossCrime #HIFChairs
Great to see some slices of ANZ crime fiction, aka #SouthernCrossCrime, on show in bookshop at last weekend's prestigious @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime in UK. @kate_kemp and @hammerNow repped Oz Noir onstage this year, with several other Kiwi/Aussie authors in attendance.
Great to see some slices of ANZ crime fiction, aka #SouthernCrossCrime, on show in bookshop at last weekend's prestigious @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime in UK. @kate_kemp and @hammerNow repped Oz Noir onstage this year, with several other Kiwi/Aussie authors in attendance.
Flashback: two years ago, Dame Ngaio biographer Dr Joanne Drayton & Māori filmmaker @MBennettBooks at Marlborough Book Festival. Michael's debut, #BetterTheBlood went on to win #2023Ngaios Best First Novel, #BeltiePrize in US, and shortlisted for awards on 4 continents #yeahnoir
This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three very different crime novels that moved from rural Victoria to sunny Byron Bay to Renaissance Venice. All recommended. @mhickey2015 #DVBishop @pathomaswriter @canberra_daily @MacmillanAus @echo_publishing murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/canberra-weekl…
A quartet of Aussie & Kiwi crimelovers in famed beer tent at @HarrogateFest #theakstonscrime in UK over the weekend. Great to see some ANZ flavour, onstage and off, at one of the world's biggest & best book festivals. @writerJJohnson @hammerNow @emstylesauthor @craigsisterson
We've heard a whisper that The Grapevine by debut author @kate_kemp is a tasty read. Here's our review by @SandraMangan_ crimefictionlover.com/2025/04/the-gr…
Great to see @kate_kemp bringing an antipodean touch to the hugely popular Critics' New Blood panel at @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime in the UK over the weekend. Kate joins the likes of fellow ANZ authors @hammerNow, @emstylesauthor, and @MBennettBooks as New Blood alumni.
It’s high noon for the Critics’ New Blood panel, featuring @SpacemanDan13 AE Goldin @kate_kemp and @RobBurnett, with Mick Herron as chair. #TheakstonsCrime
The big green chair interviews with @craigsisterson in the sunshine (after a running jump to get up there) @HarrogateFest #TheakstonsCrime
Great to see Aussie debut author Kate Kemp, who I got to chair at @CapitalCrime1, being highlighted in bookshop and on this year’s #TheakstonsCrime New Blood panel. Fab to see Belinda Bauer, @LauraSRobinson, DV Bishop and many other cool people throughout Friday arvo/eve
So good to hear #TheGrapeVine celebrated, this ‘unashamedly feminist’ novel. So much to love here: coming of age, 70s suburbia, simmering secrets, the workings of power and the working of ants. Can’t wait to read more from @kate_kemp
New Zealand crime and thriller writing, aka #yeahnoir, coming up big at the annual Book Industry Awards! Great to see our terrific crime/thriller writing on both sides of the Tasman getting increased respect, support, and accolades in the books world at large, at home and abroad.
Congratulations to @MBennettBooks and 'The Bookshop Detectives' Gareth and Louise Ward, who were big winners this weekend at the Aotearoa Book Industry Awards. Michael scooped Best AudioBook for #ReturntoBlood, while #TheBookshopDetectives won Booksellers Choice #yeahnoir
Congratulations to NZ-born, Aussie-based playwright, screenwriter & author @gobergmoser, a #2025Ngaios longlistee for his terrifying Outback thriller THE HITCHHIKER. Gabe has previously won the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award; can he add a Ngaio? #yeahnoir
On my way #TheakstonsCrime. Phew, because I don’t have enough Kate Atkinson books. Some truly awesome panels this weekend. The weather seems to have changed since I set off so I’ll be the one wearing sunglasses in the rain. Look forward to seeing you all soon! #harrogate
A glimpse of the city of Auckland, through the eyes of Hana Westerman, the main character in Michael Bennett's New Zealand-set crime series. crimereads.com/michael-bennet…
Fifteen years, fifteen stories: 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel longlist revealed: kiwicrime.blogspot.com/2025/07/fiftee… #yeahnoir @NZSocAuthors @BooksellersNZ
Check out leading Aussie book reviewer and awards judge Jeff Popple's takes on some new and upcoming Aussie & Kiwi books!
In my latest round up of Aussie & Kiwi crime fiction, I review new books by Joan Sauers, @NWhiteAuthor & Angie Faye Martin & foreshadow releases by @gobergmoser @mpbrissenden @AKalagianBlunt Benjamin Stevenson & Zoe Rankin @HarperCollinsAU @audible_com murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/downunder-crim…
“You don’t get to see inside somebody else’s head in real life…” - excellent point from @kate_kemp during the Oz panel @CapitalCrime1 - it’s why we write books right? 😅 Her debut The Grape Vine sounds excellent too. Out from @Phoenix_Bks #CapitalCrime #Australia #BookTweet
A fab array of great Aussie & Kiwi storytelling spotted at @CapitalCrime1, with 250+ 'Anzac' authors and books in this photo* WHAT, there's only four people and five books here?! (*ok we're counting the 22 contributors to DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2, and many discussed in SCC)
