Oct 272020
On 27th October, Fiona Malcolm, who works for Melbourne Athenaeum Library, ran a session on what crime novel would you want with you if you were stranded on a desert island. She kicked things off with some of her ‘must take’ and most re-read crime novels before asking the audience for their suggestions.
Here are Fiona’s own suggestions.
| They ‘select themselves’ | Connelly, Michael | The Poet |
| Christie, Agatha | And Then There Were None OR Murder On The Orient Express | |
| Tracy, P.J. | Want to Play? (apa Monkeewrench) | |
| Locke, Attica | Bluebird, Bluebird | |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime And Punishment | |
| Almost made it | Barton, Fiona | The Widow |
| Berna, Paul | A Hundred Million Francs | |
| Blyton, Enid | Five Go To Billycock Hill | |
| Bolton, Sharon | Little Black lies | |
| Clark, Douglas | The Gimmel Flask OR Golden Rain | |
| Flynn, Gillian | Sharp Objects | |
| French, Tana | In The Woods | |
| Griffiths, Elly | The Stranger Diaries | |
| Lippman, Laura | Sunburn | |
| McGown, Jill | Murders Of Mrs Austin & Mrs Beale | |
| McIlvanney, William | Laidlaw | |
| Neel, Janet | Death’s Bright Angel OR Death On Site | |
| Sayers, Dorothy L. | Gaudy Night OR Nine Tailors | |
| The series | Grafton, Sue | The Alphabet series |
| Muller, Marcia | Sharon McCone series | |
| Rankin, Ian | Rebus series | |
| The Aussies | Cleary, Jon | Scobie Malone series |
| Disher, Garry | Dragon Man | |
| Downes, Anna | No Safe Place | |
| Kovacic, Katherine | Portrait Of Molly Dean | |
| Maloney, Shane | Stiff |
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