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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