Show Notes
Episode 5 of Crime Fiction Down Under features some heavy hitters of the Australian crime fiction scene. We talk about new crime TV: Slow Horses (Apple TV) Treasure and Dirt (ABC) We review and discuss: Full Circle by Chris Hammer Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham And we recommend: A Killing in Lagos by Amen Alonge The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa
In Award news we discuss the winners of the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards. Best Debut: In Bloom by Liz Allen Best True Crime: Duty to Warn by Charlotte Grieve Best International Crime Fiction: The Death of Us by Abigail Dean Best Crime Fiction: Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth The video presentation of the 2026 awards can be found on the Australian Crime Writers’ Association Website - https://www.austcrimewriters.com/ Or on You tube: https://youtu.be/ySb4kgGH5Gw?si=rrbFydPocoKGEYlZ If you want to see Jacqui in conversation with Chris Hammer at Clunes Booktown on Sunday 11 October 2026 you can get your tickets here: https://creativeclunes.tidyhq.com/public/schedule/events/88511-booktown-on-sunday-october-2026 Robert’s book review website is: www.pilebythebed.com And the Crime Fiction Down Under Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1381554830859678 Other books and authors mentioned in Episode 5: The Secret Hours by Mick Herron The Dry by Jane Harper Garry Disher’s Hirschhausen series My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwait Lightseekers by Femi Kayode Life After Life by Kate Atkinson The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Nigerian science fiction authors:Tade Thompson Nnedi Okorafor Wole Talabi
Other books by Chris HammerScrublands Silver Trust Treasure and Dirt The Seven
Other books by Michael RobothamThe Suspect Lost Shatter Life or Death The Secrets She Keeps When You Are Mine The White Crow Good Girl, Bad Girl When She Was Good Lying Beside You Storm Child
More from Crime Fiction Down Under
In Episode 6 of Crime Fiction Down Under we talk about: Red Queen - the TV adaptation of Juan Gomez-Jurado’s trilogy of thrillers (Amazon Prime) Law the Podcast hosted by former Supreme Court judge Lex Lasry AM and barrister Greg Barnes SC We review: The Shark by Emma Styles (4:48) The Doubles by Jacob P Gallagher (9:26) We talk about The BAD Sydney crime writers festival which is being held on the 20th and 21st of November (15:35) More information and tickets can be found at badsydney.com Our recommendations from the wider world of crime fiction this week are: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet (17:24) We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman (20:23) You can follow and get in touch with us on our Facebook page which is Crime Fiction Down Under: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1GYvsdyrpc/ And all of Robert’s reviews can be found at: www.pilebythebed.com Other books mentioned in the podcast: Red Queen Series by Juan Gomez-Jurado:Red Queen Black Wolf White King
In our fourth episode of Crime Fiction Down Under we talk about some of our favourite podcasts: Decoder Ring The Secret Life of Books Zero to Well Read
In our third episode we discuss our guilty crime tv pleasures and we review:
In our second episode we review: Bad Neighbours by Joanna Jenkins and The Cursed Road by Laura McCluskey