Unfortunately, The Blood on my Hands is a true story. I spent my childhood in Australia in the 1960s and 70s, and it was not what one would call conventional. While, in most cases, a family is a group of people you can trust and feel comfortable with, mine left me to the will of…
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Tim Flannery is set in 1932 and follows young anthropologist Archie Meek and the Great Venus Island Fetish—a ceremonial mask surrounded by 32 human skulls—that might be the key to the recent deaths and disappearances at the museum it resides in (Available February 2, 2016). It’s 1932,…
Web of Deceit by Katherine Howell is the 6th novel in the Ella Marconi series where Detective Ella Marconi helps local paramedic Jane investigate what, at first, appears to be a delusional man's cry for help and eventual suicide. But as the case gets complicated, things aren't quite what they seem (Available December 15, 2015).…
Perhaps the least glamorous photography of the human subject is that of the police mug shot. Well, living subjects anyhow. Crime scene and autopsy photos may be less flattering still. Yet these beautiful vintage photographs—their glass-etched acetate negatives salvaged from the Sydney Police criminal archive in a flood and compiled by curators Caleb Williams and Peter…
