13 th November 2025 Sisters in Crime national co-ordinator Carmel Shute in conversation with Caroline de Costa at the launch of her new stand-alone crime novel The Rosemary

Caroline was awarded the AM, the Membership of the Order of Australia, in June 2014. She was honoured and humbled to receive the award,...

Since 1994, the annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards run by Sisters-in-Crime have celebrated short stories written by Australian women and featuring a strong female protagonist. In the 2019 Awards Caroline received the Kerry Greenwood Malice Domestic Award for her story ‘Screwed’. In 2020 she was Highly Commended for two stories, ‘Combustible’ and ‘Love in the time of coronavirus’. In 2021she won the Art and Crime Award for ‘The fragrance of the corpse flower’ and in 2023 the Crime