Jane Harper and Sue Williams talk crime at Victoria University

Jane Harper and Sue Williams will be talking about crime writing, selling first novels, the fascination of secrets in small Australian towns, and whether crime can be too funny or too serious, among other things.

Jane Harper won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015 and, The Dry, her first novel, was published by Pan Macmillan in June. The action revolves around an apparent murder-suicide in the farming community of Kiewarra. Rights have already been sold to over twenty territories and it has been optioned for a film by Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea’s production company, Pacific Standard.

Jane has worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK. She lives in Melbourne and writes for the Herald Sun, amongst other publications.

Info: http://janeharper.com.au/

Sue Williams has two crime novels under her belt – Dead Men Don’t Order Flake (Text), which also came out in June is the sequel to Sue’s debut novel, Murder with the Lot, which introduced readers to Cass Tuplin, owner-operator of the best (and indeed only) takeaway in the not-very-fictional town of Rusty Bore in Victoria’s Mallee region. Cass is in her mid-forties, a widowed mother of two adult sons: Dean, the local police constable; and Brad, a uni student and environmentalist. Cass is also an amateur private investigator albeit, as Dean likes to remind her, an unlicensed one.

Murder with the Lot was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Book.

Sue Williams has a PhD in marine biology and has worked as a science writer and chartered accountant.

Info: https://sueiwilliams.wordpress.com/

Date: Thursday 11 August
Time: 6.30 for 7pm start
Venue: MetroWest at Vic Uni, Nicholson Street, Footscray

Cost is $15 or $10 conc and includes wine and cheese. (Sisters in Crime  members are concession). Books on sale from the Sun Bookshop.
Bookings to Lucia.Nardo@vu.edu.au