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Reads a bit of crime fiction. AustCrimeFiction.org since 2006. Owned by lots of Aussie Terriers, cats & farm animals. Gin drinker, old lefty, whinges about weather. Dja Dja Wurrung country. All the sites at: https://linktr.ee/kcfromaustcrime
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · Nov 12
For new users who are interested in books and reading here there's a feed devoted to that. You can find out more here:

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The feed is called BookSky 💙📚

You can find it by clicking on the More feeds option on the main screen (web) or #Feeds on the mobile app.
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Welcome to BookSky! Created by Clarabelle XYZ! How do I post to feed? Any posts on bsky with the emoji 💙📚(in either order, it is not case sensitive) should populate into the feed! You do not need to...
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 5h
Yeah but Melbourne's got a fancy new station.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Almost 350 rapid-response fire trucks grounded in Victoria due to faults
Hundreds of rapid-response fire vehicles are off the road ahead of bushfire season, prompting fears local brigades will have to pick up the slack.
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 2d
There's still time to get your entry in to win this great swag of books – entries close midnight tonight, Tuesday 7 October 2025.
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Attn Australian #BookSky: our 2025 spring giveaway is on! Win a great bundle of books by Laura McCluskey, Antigone Kefala, Grant Dooley and William Lane. Be quick - entries close midnight TONIGHT Tues 7 Oct 2025.
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Image of covers of books The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey, Collected Works – Fiction by Antigone Kefala, Bomb Season in Jakarta by Grant Dooley and Saturation by William Lane, featured in the Newtown Review of Books 2025 Spring Giveaway #1.
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 2d
September's newsletter on AustCrime in which a lot of new releases are noted, as well as reviews, and general comments. And a note on predictability.

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AustCrime Update: September 2025 | AustCrimeFiction.org
Predictability is overrated. Which is another way of saying this newsletter should have come out in early September and it didn't.  But on the upside a lot of reading and reviewing has been getting d...
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Jeff Popple @murdermayhem.bsky.social · 6d
Fans of gritty outback Australian noir can rejoice with the release of new books by 2 doyens of the genre: Garry Disher & Jane Harper. Very different books, but both are good reads #JaneHarper #GarryDisher #booksky #outbacknoir @textpublishing.bsky.social murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/outback-noir...
OUTBACK NOIR 2025: MISCHANCE CREEK BY GARRY DISHER and LAST ONE OUT BY JANE HARPER
October brings new books by two of the doyens of Australian outback crime. Mischance Creek by Garry Disher (Text, 30 September 2025) Few, if any, do outback noir consistently as well as Garry Dishe…
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Charlie Nutbrown @charlienutbrown.bsky.social · 7d
Happy birthday to Edmund Crispin, one of the best, funniest, and most distinctive writers of detective fiction.

Here's the first part of a wonderful article about Crispin: thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2011/11/what...

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What "Killed" Crispin? The Creative Life and Death of Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin, Part One
Music composer Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978), who as Edmund Crispin wrote eight glitteringly witty and amusing detective novels between 19...
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 7d
World's going to hell in a handbasket. Here's 3 goslings hatched yesterday guarded by their 3 very stroppy parents.
Gander with his back to the camera, and two geese, protecting three yellow and black goslings. Himself's got the bruised back legs to prove just how protective they are.
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 7d
Such a loss. Such a privilege to have lived at the same time as her.
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#Primates
We’ve lost one of our pioneers
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 8d
Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 9d
Tonight's walk and this idiot marched into the dam like she could walk on water. Had to be forcefully discouraged. She's as blind as a bat and deaf but I thought she'd gone senile as well. Until we got to the dead kangaroo on the other side of the dam. Nothing wrong with her sense of smell then
An elderly sleeping Aussie Terrier who is now dry
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 9d
Yep - out yesterday I believe. And it's really good :)
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 9d
Today's review is of the hilarious and hectic Everyone In This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson

tinyl.co/3ln3

A review in which I freely admit it'll be another couple of readings before I get all the clues in a straight line. Love this series.

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The book cover for Everyone In This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson is a white background with a greyed out circling dotted line joining the words of the title: Everyone - grey with the top half of the o the eye mask and beanie of a bank robber in This - slightly angled in grey again Bank - graduated golden yellow with the top area of the capital A in the form of a flame Is A - slightly angled in grey again with the S in the shape of a dollar sign Thief - Grey capital letters with the F slightly out of line as if being picked up by the bright green parrot with a red billed sitting on the edge of a blacked out "gunshot" hole. The Author's name is at the top of the book directly under the line 'Over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide' and the tagline at the bottom 'Ten Suspects. Ten Heists. A Mystery only Ernest Cunningham can solve'
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 10d
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 10d
Very very serious fire situation built quickly down around Berringa / Derwent Jacks Road, near Ballarat. Massive worry for everyone in that area - it's not good.
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 11d
Great reminder of everything the volunteers are called on to do. It's an all year round commitment
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 11d
I signed on as a vol to fight bushfires.

But being in a regional town, winter means car accidents, structural fires, gas leaks, patient lifts, etc.

Fire season prep (burn over, hazardous trees, etc) always feels like we're getting ready for the main game.
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 12d
It is a long weekend for reasons which do not interest me one jot. So I'm reading to avoid cleaning out the spare bedroom

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Everyone In This Bank Is A Thief | AustCrimeFiction.org
Ten suspects. Ten heists. A puzzle only Ernest Cunningham can solve. I’ve spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. I’ve never been a hostage before. The ...
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 15d
Will pro Israel lobby groups pay for this?

Will Ita Buttrose pay for this?

No, we will pay for this.

The already stretched ABC budget will fund less local content this year due to political interference and terrible management.

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ABC ordered to pay $150,000 fine for unlawfully sacking Lattouf
The judge ordered ABC to pay a fine of $150,000 for unlawfully sacking journalist and presenter Antoinette Lattouf for reasons including her political opinions.
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 17d
Couple of reviews of very different offerings today:

The Birthmark Murders by Janus Lucky tinyl.co/3jWB First novel, dry & darkly humorous.

The White Feather Murders by Laraine Stephens tinyl.co/3jWE historical setting, full of dash, speed & flair.

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The image of the book cover for The Birthmark Murders by Janus Lucky has the tagline 'Death is a Cabaret, Old Chum'. The cover is a darkened background and flat surface on which a dark red leather bound book is sitting upright, the golden edges of the pages on display with the front of the book having a golden border in the red, a circle motif at the top and ML in the centre in large gold lettering. There is blood dropping from the side of the book to form a pool, it's originating from what could be a bullet hole. The image of the book cover for The White Feather Murders by Laraine Stephens includes the tagline 'a Reggie de Costa Mystery'. The background is lots of slightly indistinct white feathers, with a bottle of ink, with a couple of splatters over the top of it. There's a quill dipped in the dark ink, which has a white shaft, white outer vanes leading up to pale brown colouring at the inner vane to the top.
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David Farley-Brain 🍄Keep Alaska Canadian!! @coffeedave.bsky.social · 18d
Came across this shot of ¨The Emu Rising¨ from the beginning of this year on a wonderful night of 24 hour power blackout. You will see the head of the Emu touching the bottom star of the Southern Cross.

A strong symbol in Australian First Nations Culture.
June 3rd 2025 Sony a6000 17mm TTArtisans
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 18d
Sunday night's life admin task done and dusted. Disney+ sub cancelled with a why explanation entered under "other".
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 18d
Looking good for an old bugger Sir Gregory. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Knights in shining armour gallop into battle at Australia’s national jousting championship
Mental challenge matches physical intensity for the men and women who clash on horseback at Kryal Castle in regional Victoria
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 21d
Haven't seen the vets for a week or so, so Mambo and his teeth and Lillie here with an infection in her very private parts. That was an examination that none of us are going to forget in a hurry...
A black pig, side on with straw from her bed in her face, she's just woken up, isn't 100% well and grumpy. To be fair she's pretty well always grumpy
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 21d
Many happy happy birthday salutations to you 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 22d
“Eurovision’s ‘unity through music’ theme is hard to swallow when one contestant is committing ethnic cleansing, starving civilians and killing children. Shoe ridge accused Eurovision of
“gross double standards” by banning Russia…but “rolling out the red carpet for Israel”…” #AusPol #Gaza
SBS resists calls to join EU boycott of Eurovision 2026 if Israel allowed to compete
Israeli media had reported nation had been asked to step aside or compete under a neutral symbol due to controversies over Gaza war
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22d
Cut the cord already, Sue. Let the boy stand on his own two feet while drinking out of a third.
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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 22d
Story:
Ben Roberts-Smith’s mother emails Coalition MPs saying Andrew Hastie ‘not fit’ to lead Liberals
Exclusive: Sue Roberts-Smith sends 39-page dossier to two dozen Liberal and National MPs after fresh speculation about Hastie’s possible leadership tilt
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