Formerly Sisters in Crime Sydney




Welcome Partners In Crime.


My name is Robyn McWilliam and I'm the Meeting Convenor for Partners In Crime Sydney. We are a group of mostly women writers and readers of crime stories. Every two months, on a Sunday, we meet at the Hughendon Boutique Hotel 14 Queen Street, Woollahra from 4.00 p m to about 6.00 p m. The Hughendon is part owned by a writer Susanne Gervay and it is a lovely heritage building just around the corner from Oxford Street and diagonally opposite the entrance to Centennial Park.

Subscribe to Partners in Crime Sydney.
Only $29.00 per year: read book reviews by members; keep up-to-date; attend our bi-monthly meetings with speakers to help your writing and improve your knowledge of the crime genre. (Membership email below)

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK.

Happy New Year to everyone. May it bring health, happiness, and lots of good reading and writing to us all. May it also bring a better world with a new president in the United States.
Robyn McWilliam continues to find wonderful speakers, starting 2009 with Richard Young, the author of 'Death Among the Vines', who will be speaking on February 1st. He will be discussing how difficult it is to get a crime novel published and suggesting ways to overcome that problem, starting with his own experience.
See you all at The Hughenden.
Angela Wawn

Queen of Crime Awards 2008

1st prize $ 250.00 TRISH BERNARD

Princess

2nd prize $150.00 KERRY JAMES

Money Laundering

3rd prize $100.00 RON JONES

Seek and He Shall Find

Margaret Probert Award to Trish Bernard for Brut Baby

Norm Clark Award to Mary Penny for Kissing Cousins

Short-listed Entries: The Arena P S Cottier,
Wheel of Fortune Felicity Pulman

Location, Location, Location Prue Brown,
Dab Hand Ronda Bird

Murder Most Fine Brooke McReynolds


OUT NOW!!


2008 Anthology. Price $12.50 plus $2.75 P&H

Robyn McWilliam. P.O.Box 819, Avalon NSW 2107

The name …
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) prolific English 'Queen of Crime' author of world renown created such famous detectives as Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian who relied on his keen grasp of logic to nab crooks; and English spinster Miss Jane Marple (partly inspired by her maternal grandmother) who used her feminine intuition to solve crime.
Her writing career spanned over fifty years. Perhaps she can inspire you to become a 'Queen of Crime'.

A taste …
'Inside each hollowed-out taro root were tiny clear plastic packets …' (Kuli Finau Brings Home the Bacon)
'Father's cricket bat is really very effective when properly wielded.' (At Peace with Picasso)
'That skull's fresh.' I babbled. 'Bloody fresh.' (Ossuarium. A Noun)
'An animal attack in an exclusive penthouse …' (Svetlana)
'… her red g-string somehow finished up hanging from the blade of a ceiling fan …' (Justice)

QUEEN OF CRIME AWARDS 2007

The winners are:

1st prize $ 250.00 RON JONES

“Tea and other Solutions”

2nd prize $150.00 DAVID CAMPBELL

“Justice”

3rd prize $100.00 RAYMOND SOUTHALL

“A Corpse in the Collection”

Norm Clark Award for most unusual plot to Diana Coventry “The Time Capsule”

Margaret Probert Award to B. J. Stirling “At Peace with Picasso”

Encouragement Jo McGahey “Nightmare”

Short listed entries:

Norma Faulkner “A Sister Clara Mystery”

Alison George “Family Reunion

Robyn McWilliam “Sadistic Desire”

Anamarie Nelson “Check mate”

QOC 2006 WINNERS.



OPEN SECTION

lst prize $250.00 JO McGAHEY
Ossarium. A Noun.
2nd prize $150.00 RON JONES
“Something in the Way She Moves”
3rd prize $100.00 LAURIE FORTH
“Checkmate”

SPECIAL SECTION

MARGARET PROBERT AWARD

lst prize $125.00 CHERYL ROGERS
“Deadline”
2nd prize $75.00 SHEILA DRAKELEY
“Roses Anonymous”
3rd prize $50.00 THELMA BACKSHALL
“Blue Murder”

NORM CLARK AWARD - Most unusual plot. ELLEN ASH “Svetlana”

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD JOE BACKSHALL “At any Price”

Out now! View contents here

A taste.....


'The unmistakable smell of burnt flesh reminded Reeves of why he had become a vegetarian'. (In Broad Daylight)
'Next morning she turned up. Handcuffed and barefoot', (Principal Suspect)
"So now you must die. You and your daughter and the Shamus. Who wants to be first?" 'We said nothing'.(Shamus)
'He stumbled across Emily lying naked on the sand with a small rasberry tart covering each breast.'(Weight Until Death)
'We'd all thought it a cute idea that the fossil-dig would contain more bones after we'd left it than before we'd arrived.'(The Assignation)

The buzz.....

'...brings the seedy, smog-laden alley-ways of Sydney to life.' A.C.Doyle
'These guys play fast and dirty. One of them, in particular, bears watching.' R.Chandler

Order now

Cost $5.00 plus $2.75 postage

Robyn McWilliam
P.O.Box 819, Avalon NSW. 2107

Email here..



Meeting Dates 2009.

4.00 p.m. Only $10.00 at the door, includes delicious afternoon tea.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL.

February 1st, Richard Young. Author of 'Death Among the Vines'.
April 5th. Sydney Bauer. Author of 'Undertow'.
June 14th. Detective Senior Constable Megan Marks.
August 2nd. TBA.
October 11th. TBA.
December 6th. TBA.



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Guest Speaker Highlights.



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