Nightmare Noir: Gold Coast Literary Dinner

Sisters in Crime cordially invites you to an evening of Nightmare Noir where three talented Queensland authors take a deep dive into the real-life nightmares that inspired their latest blockbuster releases.

Over a two-course meal, Sisters in Crime Qld convenor, Megan Norris, will launch fellow Big Sky author Nicole Morris’s new crime offering Missing, the sequel to her 2023 best-seller, Vanished, examining the heartache behind some of the most baffling disappearances in Australia and the impact on the shattered families as they search for answers. Nicole is the Director of Australia’s Missing Persons Unit.

Debut author and journalist, Nicole Madigan, has turned her nightmare as the victim of a female serial stalker into the Davitt-nominated release, Obsession. She is a non-executive Board Director of Friends with Dignity, a charity providing support to victim-survivors of domestic violence, and is an ambassador for domestic violence advocacy group My Red Flags.

Tess Merlin is an ex-police officer and author who published her first novel Rank in 2023. This autobiographical novel about her time as one of the early policewomen in Queensland was written from her lived experiences as a female officer and as someone with personal experience of the trauma of being stalked. In 2023, Tess was awarded second place in the Thunderbolt Crime Writers Non-fiction ShortStory awards with a High Commendation and was long-listed for the Gold Coast Writers Fiction Short Story awards.

Host Megan Norris is a UK-trained journalist and award-winning author whose portfolio includes covering some of Australia’s most notorious crimes. Her book Look What You Made Me Do was awarded the 2017 Sisters in Crime Australia Davitt Award for best non-fiction crime book and Out of the Ashes won the same award last year. The Messiah’s Bride is her seventh book.