Tag Archives: crime

TIM WATSON-MUNRO – A Shrink in the Clink

 It’s a great title – and it perfectly describes the real life experiences of Tim Watson-Munro a criminal Psychologist. Weird, funny and terrifying true tales as Watson-Munro reveals some of the warped minds behind some of the country’s major crimes. In this read, Tim is trapped on a small plane with passenger terrified of flying.

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2023

ANNE BUIST – Locked Ward

A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes to mental health issues, written by an author who has had over 25 years of clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry.

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023

SUSAN WHITE – Cut

With all the focus over the past few years on the health care system – here’s a (fictional) tale to really scare you! Susan White is a real life doctor (though not surgeon) and she finds plenty to intrigue the reader in this tale of skullduggery (sorry!) in a hospital that her protagonist, Carla has to solve at her peril.

Susan White read and Interview from ‘Cut’

Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022

MARGARET HICKEY -Cutter’s End

Award Winning Crime Fiction!

MARGARET HICKEY – Cutter’s End

Margaret Hickey’s beleaguered Sergeant Mark Ariti has won Margaret the 2022 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival Danger Prize for crime fiction. The novel is set in a small outback town where, in true crime tradition, people have mysteriously disappeared! Hickey’s character of Mark Ariti adds a special charm to this atmospheric thriller. Extra long read because it’s a winner!

Margaret Hickey – The Read

Margaret Hickey – Interview

Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022

mark brandi – the others

Mark Brandi

Caught up with Mark Brandi at the BAD crime writers festival in Sydney.

Here is a read from his latest novel ‘The Others’. Although it mentions a ‘plague’ he actually wrote it two years before Covid.

Author: Mark Brandi

Mark Brandi reads from ‘The Others’

Mark Brandi Interview

In the slightly echoing chambers of the State Library of NSW, Mark talks about his latest work.

Recorded at the BAD festival Sydney Dec. 2021

kyle perry – the deep

Trouble in Deepest Tassie!

Kyle Perry knows first hand about how lives can go awry, particularly when substance abuse is involved. His day job is as a Drugs and Alcohol counsellor – but at night he is writing edge of the seat thrillers centered around his favorite part of the world – Tasmania,

This novel is set in one small fishing town, where one family has held the licenses to fish for prized Abalone for generations. Three members of the family go missing, then , years later, a boy of the right age is washed up on the beach with a horrifying message tattooed into his back. He is alive, but he is not telling what happened to him.

Kyle Perry Interview

This interview aired on Arts Canvass August 2021.

Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow.

KATHERINE FIRKIN -‘STICKS AND STONES’

Great Crime fiction for rainy days on the couch!

The many years Katherine Firkin reported on crime and court reporting left her with the overwhelming impression of just how easily things can go wrong in people’s lives and she brings all these sub texts and subtleties into this gripping novel about a series of murders of young women.

Author Katherine Firkin

Interview and read with Katherine Firkin

This week I have included the interview and the read by Katherine and of course the interview was conducted by phone in this time of iso.

First broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 2020.