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'Scarlet Stiletto; the Fifteenth Cut showcases the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize and category-winning stories of the 2023 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. The Fifteenth Cut coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Scarlet Stiletto Women's Crime and Mystery short story competition run by sisters in Crime Australia. Fifteen rivetting, intriguing, creepy, mysterious, hard boiled and cozy crime stories for your reading pleasure.' (Publication summary)

'Scarlet Stiletto: The Fourteenth Cut - 2022 features twelve award-winning stories from the 29th annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards.

''Crime and mystery short stories of startling originality; and a grim warning of what evil lurks in Australian suburbia.' - Kerry Greenwood

'The Scarlet Stiletto series of eBooks – the First to the Fourteenth Cuts – feature superb collections of spine-chilling crime and mystery short stories, by Australian women writers, curated from 29 years of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.' (Publication summary)

'Scarlet Stiletto: The Eleventh Cut - 2019 features thirteen award-winning stories from the 26th annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Award-winning crime stories from the 2017 Scarlet Stiletto Awards held by Sisters in Crime Australia.

'A superb collection of page-turning crime and mystery stories in which fabulous female protagonists solve – and sometimes perpetrate – all kinds of crimes.

'It is a thrilling mixture of surprising and chilling tales featuring amateur sleuths, journalists, writers, spies, cops, librarians, crooks and killers.

'These 13 award-winning stories will have you on the edge of your seat, will chill your blood and sometimes make you laugh out loud.' (Publication Summary)

In 1994 Sisters in Crime Australia realised that one of the best ways to uncover, encourage and foster a new generation of women crime writers was to host a writing competition.

The Scarlet Stiletto Awards for women's crime and mystery writing was born.

Two decades - and more than 2,538 entries later - the competition is still going strong and claims 'responsibility for kick-starting several writing careers and steering more than a few women towards a life in crime'.

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards, the 2013 prize-winning stories have been collected together in this e-book.

Sisters in Crime Australia and Clan Destine Press have also published many of the winning stories from previous years in two collections - Scarlet Stiletto: The First Cut and Scarlet Stiletto: The Second Cut.

In this collection, Scarlet Stiletto: Short Stories 2013 you will find tales filled with history, bigotry and revenge, car chases, dead blondes and PIs, tears, chills and laughter, from 12 very talented women writers from across Australia.

'The Fifth Cut features tales filled with history, bigotry and revenge, car chases, dead blondes and PIs, tears, chills and laughter, from 12 talented women writers from across Australia.' (Publication Summary)