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Open Invitation: Melbourne launch of The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

Everyone is welcome at the event launch The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner by Adelaide Sisters in Crime member, Dr Samantha Battams. Dr Battams will be in conversation with Dr Lucy Sussex, long-time  Sisters in Crime member,  author, and literary historian.  Lucy's historical works include Women Writers ...

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Free

Susan Hurley@Grumpy Swimmer May Book Club

The Grumpy Swimmer 110 Ormond Road, Elwood, Vic, Australia

Sisters in Crime member, Susan Hurley, will join the Grumpy Swimmer May Book Club to talk about her debut novel, Eight Lives. A brilliant young doctor is dead … and someone has to take the blame. Eight Lives is a scientific thriller: Former refugee David Tran becomes the Golden Boy of Australian medical research and invents ...

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Open invitation – launch of Making Trouble (Tongued with Fire): An Imagined History of Harriet Elphinstone Dick and Alice C. Moon 

Readings Carlton 309 Lygon Street, Carlton, V, Australia

Making Trouble (Tongued with Fire): An Imagined History of Harriet Elphinstone Dick and Alice C. Moon by Sue Ingleton will be launched by playwright Joanna Murray-Smith Thursday, 20 June. Please join us at Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton at 6.00pm for 6.30pm launch. For more information on this free event and to RSVP please ...

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The Life and Crimes of Vikki Petraitis

The Rising Sun Hotel cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Vikki Petraitis, true crime writer and regular Dicks V Dames debater, will be interrogated about her 25 years of crime writing by Emily Webb, fellow true crime writer and co-presenter of the Australian True Crime Podcast. Vikki Petraitis took to writing true crime because, unlike crime fiction, it was so raw and it told the ...

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$15 – $20

Open invitation launch of J.M. Green’s, Shoot Through

The Night Heron 228 Nicholson St.,, Footscray, Vic, Australia

Scribe Publications is delighted to invite you to the launch of  J.M. Green's, Shoot Through,  to be launched by Imbi Neeme: 6.30pm Monday 22 July  - The Night Heron, 228 Nicholson St., Footscray Shoot Through is the 3rd in J.M. Green's Stella hardy series set in Melbourne's  West. Free but RSVP: danielle@scribepub.com.au      

Free

Brisbane – Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation re My Name is Revenge

Avid Reader 193 Boundary Street, West End, Qld, Australia

Hear Sydney Sister in Crime Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation with Ashley Hay re My Name is Revenge, her literary thriller novella set in 1980s’ Sydney and drawn from true events, including a series of international terrorist attacks. Wednesday, July 24, 6-8pm Ticket $10.00, Book (My Name Is Revenge) $24.99 Tickets available until 24 July ...

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$10

Katherine Kovacic & Rob McDonald Brunswick Bound

Brunwsick Bound 361 Sydney Rd,, Brunswick, Vic, Australia

Join Sister in Crime Katherine Kovacic in conversation with Brother in Law RWR McDonald at Brunswick Bound bookstore on Tuesday August 13, 7-8pm. There's a lot of love between these two writing buddies, so this is sure to be a fun night! Katherine Kovacic (Painting In the Shadows) and Rob McDonald (The Nancys) will be in discussion about their books, their ...

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$5

Open invitation to Melbourne book launch: The Collaborator by Diane Armstrong

Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre 13 – 15 Selwyn St.,, Elsternwick, Vic, Australia

Sydney-based Sisters in Crime, Diane Armstrong, is a child Holocaust survivor who was born in Poland in 1939 and arrived in Australia in 1948. An award-winning journalist and bestselling author, she has written six books. Her family memoir Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations was short-listed for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction as well ...

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$10

Open Invitation: Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation re My Name is Revenge

Readings Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawtthorn, VIC, Australia

Hear Toni Jordan and Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation about Kalagian Blunt’s new book, My Name is Revenge, a collection of fiction and essays related to the Armenian genocide and its connections to Australia. These include the 1980 assassination of a Turkish consul-general in Sydney, a crime that remains unsolved to this day, and an attempted ...

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Free

Open invitation: author event with A M Stuart

Jeffrey’s Books 140 Glenferrie Rd.,, Malvern, Vic, Australia

A.M. Stuart will be talking about her new book, Singapore Sapphire: A Harriet Gordon Mystery, Wednesday 28 August, 6.30 pm at Jeffrey’s Books, 140 Glenferrie Rd., Malvern. Harriet Gordon stumbles into a murderous web of stolen gems and cutthroat thieves as she runs from her tragic past in an enthralling new historical mystery series set ...

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