Dangerous deceptions and delusions

Authors Sulari Gentill, Megan Goldin and Carolyn Morwood debate unreliable narrators, the blurring of truth and fiction, and much much more with Robyn Walton.

Crossing the Lines (Pantera Press), Sulari Gentill’s new stand-alone murder mystery, explores what happens when the imagined becomes better than reality. Madeleine d’Leon is fixated on the story of Edward ‘Ned’ McGinnity, the hero in this crime novel. But Ned, too, is a writer and the character he can’t get out of his head is none other than Madeleine herself. Read Robyn’s Walton’s review, which first appeared in The Weekend Australian Review.

Sulari, a lawyer turned truffle grower, has written the award-winning and best-selling Rowland Sinclair Mysteries – no. 8, A Dangerous Language (Pantera Press) is due out in, October – as well as the Greek mythology adventure series, The Hero Trilogy.

Megan Goldin’s debut novel, The Girl in Kellers Way (Penguin Random House), revolves around the murder of an unknown woman near the desolate forest road of Kellers Way in small-town America. This is a novel bursting with misdirections, twists and uncertainties and a narrator who vacillates between a fugue state and jealous mania.

Megan worked as a producer and foreign correspondent for the ABC and Reuters in Asia and the Middle East. Now back in her hometown of Melbourne, she has turned her hand to fiction. Click here to read her Q&A with Robyn Walton.

Carolyn Morwood’s latest novel, Dig Two Graves (Hybrid Publishers), is part thriller, part love story. Six international artists are invited to a residency in southern Spain. One falls in lust. Two fall in love. One talks only about New York. One makes installations out of feathers and stones. And one is left for dead on the side of a mountain.

Carolyn Morwood is the author of the Eleanor Jones mysteries and Marlo Shaw crime thrillers. Her books have won both the Tom Howard Mystery Novel Contest and Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Award. Dig Two Graves is her sixth novel. Catch up with her author blog here.

(Carolyn replaces Sarah Schmidt who can no longer speak at the event. You can catch up with Robyn Walton’s Q&A with Sarah. Click here. )

Robyn Walton, a Sisters in Crime convenor, has a PhD in English Literature and has taught English and Cultural History at universities in Sydney and Melbourne. She reviews books for several publications and interviews authors for the Sisters in Crime website.

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Tickets: $15/$10 Sisters in Crime and Writers Victoria members/concession
Tickets not sold prior to the event will be available at the door for $17/$12
Dinner upstairs from 6.30 pm (bookings not necessary);
men or ‘brothers-in-law’ welcome

Venue: The Rising Sun Hotel (upstairs – no lift)
cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road, South Melbourne
Melways map 57 H2; free on-street parking after 6 pm;
trams 1, 12 or 55 or St Kilda Road trams

Sun Bookshop stall: members receive a 10% discount

Additional information: Carmel Shute 0412 569 356; admin@sistersincrime.org.au