How Do You Take Your Crime? Hardboiled or with a side of marshmallow?

No matter the genre, the crime writer has to get their plot dead right every time. Whether it is a 1951 police procedural that opens with a pile of clothes on a Queenscliff beach (Steven Carroll’s The Afterlife of Harry Playford) or an escape room game show with a murder on set (The Escape Game by Tamara Moss) or a crime novel about the high stakes that come with easy money, old friends and murder (The Gambler by J.P. Pomare), the crime writer is responsible for taking the reader on a heart-stopping ride every single time.Hosted by Ali Colvin.