Fiona Hardy
Fiona Hardy is a bookseller at Readings Doncaster and Readings Carlton. She is also the author of books for children including How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days and How to Tackle Your Dreams. She is the former crime fiction columnist for Readings Monthly.
Blog post — 11 Aug 2022
The best new crime reads in August
Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month.
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
More than 150 years ago…
Review — 28 Jul 2022
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
More than 150 years ago, on the top of Maunga Whakairoiro – or as the colonisers called it, Mount Suffolk – a picture is taken of a Māori chief, hanging…
Blog post — 7 Jul 2022
The best new crime reads in July
Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month.
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
Stone Town by Margaret Hickey
A teenage boy takes a girl…
Review — 30 May 2022
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Under the soaring dome of the Boston Public Library, four people meet. Whit, studying to become a lawyer and doing his best to fail; handsome novelist Cain; tattooed Harvard student…
Blog post — 5 May 2022
The best new crime reads in May
Our crime specialist shares 11 great crime reads to look out for this month.
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
Wake by Shelley Burr
It has been nearly 20 years since…
Review — 28 Jun 2022
Stone Town by Margaret Hickey
A teenage boy takes a girl and her sister to Stone Town’s eerie bushland in the dark of night, in the hopes of impressing her with the alarming shrieks of…
Blog post — 7 Mar 2022
The best new crime reads in March
Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month.
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
As she walks along the…
Review — 28 Feb 2022
When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
As she walks along the beach with her mother, discouraged barrister Alex Tillerson wishes she wasn’t back in her childhood town of Merritt. Alex is going through a painful divorce…
Blog post — 7 Feb 2022
The best new crime reads in February
Our crime specialist shares 10 great crime reads to look out for this month.
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Cane by Maryrose Cuskelly
The northern Queensland town of Quala…
Blog post — 30 Nov 2021
The best of crime 2021
It’s honestly been such a strong year in Australian crime fiction that I could have easily made this entire list up of local writers—Australia just has some of the best…