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Reads a bit of crime fiction. AustCrimeFiction.org since 2006. Owned by lots of Aussie Terriers, cats & farm animals. Gin drinker, old lefty, whinges about weather. Dja Dja Wurrung country. All the sites at: https://linktr.ee/kcfromaustcrime

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · Nov 12

For new users who are interested in books and reading here there's a feed devoted to that. You can find out more here:

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The feed is called BookSky 💙📚

You can find it by clicking on the More feeds option on the main screen (web) or #Feeds on the mobile app.

BookSky FAQ

Welcome to BookSky!Created by Clarabelle XYZ!How do I post to feed?Any posts on bsky with the emoji 💙📚(in either order, it is not case sensitive) should populate into the feed! You do not need to...

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 13h

Linda Reynolds is doing such a good job at restoring that reputation that she reckons somebody she should have been supporting destroyed.

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 4d

Publishing January 2026...

In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if there's still time?

#TheHope the searing finale to Paul E. Hardisty's critically acclaimed #ClimateEmergency trilogy - an absolute MUST-READ!

🌎 bit.ly/48mRk0m

#BookSky #Books #CliFi #ClimateChange

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 1d

🇳🇿 The Inspiration 🔍

R.W.R. McDonald spills the tea on his heartwarming, hilarious & unhinged mystery #TheNancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace!

Nancy Drew had NOTHING on this trio… 🔍✨

Out this November!
📚 bit.ly/4mHDbiE

#BookSky#MysteryBooks #Books

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 1d

It might have helped. But then the whole thing seemed a bit .... obsessed is the only word I can think of....

kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 1d

Today's slightly lukewarm review of The Hidden by Bryan Brown tinyl.co/3oqT

The style was there, the subject matter didn't hit the mark for this reader. Another from the YMMV pile I suspect

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#AusCrime

The image of the book cover for The Hidden by Bryan Brown includes the tagline 'The New Thriller from the Author of The Drowning' and the quote 'Tight, tense, this mystery rockets along. All you can do is hang on and hope your favourites survive.' CANDICE FOX

The image is in the style of a painting or drawing featuring a large white rooster standing on a post within a wire fence in the centre front, looking over a green field with sheep on one side and a man on a pale horse on the other. There are low hills either side of a distant vista of flat water.

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 1d

Morning all, hell of a race yesterday!

kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

On the one hand, somebody noticed and commented, on the other... this is very light on and doesn't address the external pressures that force people away. Or to stay. Or to come back. And it's not all about bloody football and netball.

A quarter of this town's population has vanished. Experts say that could be terminal

In the Yarriambiack Shire, 350 kilometres from Melbourne in Victoria's rural north-west, virtually all of the towns are shrinking.

www.abc.net.au

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 4d

Annoying machines? So annoying. But what gives Guardian Readers the pip? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Even more annoying machines? Guardian readers share their most frustrating technofoibles | First Dog on the Moon

Apple maps thinks people can drive through my backyard!

www.theguardian.com

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 4d

That's a wonderful memory to have. Those first books were indeed a joy!

kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 4d

Today's Reviews:

The bittersweet Murder in the Cathedral by Kerry Greenwood: tinyl.co/3oJ2

and

the rural noir Dust by Michael Brissenden tinyl.co/3oJ3

Very VERY different novels - loved both of them.

#BookSky ⚡📚💙
#CrimeFiction
#AusCrime

The image of the book cover for Murder in the Cathedral by Kerry Greenwood, includes the tagline 'The NEW Miss Phryne Fisher Mystery'.

The image is of a beautiful young woman, with her back to the viewer, head turned so tat you can see her face, her hair is in a black bob style. She's wearing a pale blue backless gown with elaborate patterning on the fabric and wide straps over her shoulders, with her arms outstretched, holding the dress ut. She has a key hanging from one hand. In the background is a stylised view of a country house, and ghostly image of a car in the front.

The image of the book cover for Dust by Michael Brissenden has the tagline 'As the Lake Dries up, the bodies rise to the top. and the quote 'Searing and raw, beautiful and tender for its profound humanity ... a superb novel, confronting and oh so real. Paul Daley'

The image is of a cracked, red, dry lake bed leading to a small amount of red, dirty looking water in the middle, with a bright, clear sky overhead.

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 4d

I guess we'll all just have to start using these fancy new train tunnels and stations.... oh wait.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Victoria's most dangerous roads are in regional areas

In regional Victoria, potholes are not being fixed and major rural road projects have stalled, despite the loss of life from accidents.

www.abc.net.au

kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 5d

Yeah but Melbourne's got a fancy new station.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Almost 350 rapid-response fire trucks grounded in Victoria due to faults

Hundreds of rapid-response fire vehicles are off the road ahead of bushfire season, prompting fears local brigades will have to pick up the slack.

www.abc.net.au

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 7d

There's still time to get your entry in to win this great swag of books – entries close midnight tonight, Tuesday 7 October 2025.

Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Attn Australian #BookSky: our 2025 spring giveaway is on! Win a great bundle of books by Laura McCluskey, Antigone Kefala, Grant Dooley and William Lane. Be quick - entries close midnight TONIGHT Tues 7 Oct 2025.
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 7d

September's newsletter on AustCrime in which a lot of new releases are noted, as well as reviews, and general comments. And a note on predictability.

www.austcrimefiction.org/simplenews-n...

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AustCrime Update: September 2025 | AustCrimeFiction.org

Predictability is overrated. Which is another way of saying this newsletter should have come out in early September and it didn't. But on the upside a lot of reading and reviewing has been getting d...

www.austcrimefiction.org

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Jeff Popple @murdermayhem.bsky.social · 11d

Fans of gritty outback Australian noir can rejoice with the release of new books by 2 doyens of the genre: Garry Disher & Jane Harper. Very different books, but both are good reads #JaneHarper #GarryDisher #booksky #outbacknoir @textpublishing.bsky.social murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/outback-noir...

OUTBACK NOIR 2025: MISCHANCE CREEK BY GARRY DISHER and LAST ONE OUT BY JANE HARPER

October brings new books by two of the doyens of Australian outback crime. Mischance Creek by Garry Disher (Text, 30 September 2025) Few, if any, do outback noir consistently as well as Garry Dishe…

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Charlie Nutbrown @charlienutbrown.bsky.social · 12d

Happy birthday to Edmund Crispin, one of the best, funniest, and most distinctive writers of detective fiction.

Here's the first part of a wonderful article about Crispin: thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2011/11/what...

#booksky #detectives #DetectiveFiction #Mystery

What "Killed" Crispin? The Creative Life and Death of Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin, Part One

Music composer Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978), who as Edmund Crispin wrote eight glitteringly witty and amusing detective novels between 19...

thepassingtramp.blogspot.com

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 12d

World's going to hell in a handbasket. Here's 3 goslings hatched yesterday guarded by their 3 very stroppy parents.

Gander with his back to the camera, and two geese, protecting three yellow and black goslings. Himself's got the bruised back legs to prove just how protective they are.

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 12d

Such a loss. Such a privilege to have lived at the same time as her.

Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · 12d

#Primates
We’ve lost one of our pioneers

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 13d

Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 14d

Tonight's walk and this idiot marched into the dam like she could walk on water. Had to be forcefully discouraged. She's as blind as a bat and deaf but I thought she'd gone senile as well. Until we got to the dead kangaroo on the other side of the dam. Nothing wrong with her sense of smell then

An elderly sleeping Aussie Terrier who is now dry

kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 14d

Yep - out yesterday I believe. And it's really good :)

kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 14d

Today's review is of the hilarious and hectic Everyone In This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson

tinyl.co/3ln3

A review in which I freely admit it'll be another couple of readings before I get all the clues in a straight line. Love this series.

#BookSky ⚡📚💙
#CrimeFiction
#AusCrime

The book cover for Everyone In This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson is a white background with a greyed out circling dotted line joining the words of the title:

Everyone - grey with the top half of the o the eye mask and beanie of a bank robber
in This - slightly angled in grey again
Bank - graduated golden yellow with the top area of the capital A in the form of a flame
Is A - slightly angled in grey again with the S in the shape of a dollar sign
Thief - Grey capital letters with the F slightly out of line as if being picked up by the bright green parrot with a red billed sitting on the edge of a blacked out "gunshot" hole.

The Author's name is at the top of the book directly under the line 'Over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide' and the tagline at the bottom 'Ten Suspects. Ten Heists. A Mystery only Ernest Cunningham can solve'

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 15d

Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 15d

Very very serious fire situation built quickly down around Berringa / Derwent Jacks Road, near Ballarat. Massive worry for everyone in that area - it's not good.