Enjoy a sundowner with Queen of Crime Val McDermid

Tompkins on Swan Function Centre Dunkley Avenue, Alfred Cove, Perth, WA, Australia

Val will be in conversation with acclaimed West Australian author Dervla McTiernan, followed by Q&A from the audience, book sales and book signing. VENUE Tompkins on Swan Function Centre Dunkley Avenue, Alfred Cove, Perth 6154 DATE & TIME On Thursday 5 September 2019 at 6:30pm COST $22 per person  - price includes author in conversation, ...

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$22

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

Sydney Jewish Museum 148 Darlinghurst Rd.,, Darlinghurst, NSW, 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 as for ...

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Free

Open invitation: A.M. Stuart on Singapore Sapphire: A Harriet Gordon Mystery

Williamstown Library 104 Ferguson St.,, Williamstown, VIC, Australia

A.M. Stuart will be talking about her new book, Singapore Sapphire: A Harriet Gordon Mystery, Wednesday Wednesday 11 September, 6.30 pm, at Williamstown Library, 104 Ferguson St., Williamstown. 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 in ...

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Free

Author encounter: Sarah Thornton@Geelong Library

Geelong Library and Heritage Centre 51 Little Malop Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia

Everyone is welcome to hear Sarah Thornton talk about her debut crime novel, Lapse, to Sister in Crime national co-convenor, Tara Mitchell. In Lapse, high-flying city lawyer Clementine Jones ends up living like a hermit in small-town Katinga, coaching the local footy club, after a momentary lapse brought her world crashing down. She’s supposed to be lying ...

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Free

Open Invitation: Launch of Dorothy Johnston’s, Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune

Uniting Church - The Bay Room 85 Hesse Street, Queenscliff, Vic, Australia

Everyone is invited to join author (and long-time Sisters in Crime member) Dorothy Johnston for the launch of the third in her sea-change mystery series, Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune, to The Bookshop at Queenscliff. Janey Runci, Vice President of the Henry Handel Richardson Society, will do the honours. In Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune, local senior constable, Chris ...

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Open invitation: Tara Moss to launch the Monash University Crime Fiction Project

Monash University Learning and Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton, Vic, Australia

Everyone is welcome at the launch of  the Monash University Crime Fiction Project by  bestselling author, Tara Moss. Tara will be in conversation with Dr Barbara Pezzotti reading from and discussing her latest novel Dead Man Switch (in bookshops on 21 October) which features World War II Sydney PI Billie Walker. Monash University, Clayton Campus, Learning and ...

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Free

Open invitation: S J Morgan’s, Hide (Adelaide)

Mitcham Library 54 Belair Rd, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Please come and help us celebrate the release of Adelaide Sister in Crime S J Morgan's brand new crime/thriller, Hide (MidnightSun Publishing).  It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff and taken a flat with bikers Minto, Stobes and Black. There he meets Sindy, Minto’s strange and vulnerable ...

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Free

Open Invitation to the launch of Present Tense@Gleebooks, Sydney

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, Australia

Present Tense (Clan Destine Press) by Natalie Conyer, a riveting hard-boiled police procedural set in modern South Africa, is being launched by Matt McGuire, Associate Professor at Western Sydney University, Sunday 10 November, 3.30 for 4pm,  Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Present Tense takes us to Cape Town, to the thrilling, dangerous, new South Africa. Veteran cop ...

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Free

True Crime Sunday with Vikki Petraitis

Elsternwick Park Sports Club 70 Glenhuntly Road,, Elsternwick, Vic, Australia

What better way to an arvo: True Crime Sunday Vikki Petraitis talking about her life of true crime writing True Crime writer Vikki Petraitis will take you down the mean streets in an afternoon presentation of real Australian crime. The best-selling author of 14 books will talk about two of them: The Frankston Murders and ...

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$18 – $22

Open Invitation: Emma Viskic Book launch: Darkness for Light

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

Join in the launch of  the Emma Viskic's third instalment of her critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series, Darkness for Light by Sisters in Crime National Co-convenor, Tara Mitchell. After a lifetime of bad decisions troubled PI Zelic is finally making good ones. But he can’t escape his past. 6.30pm Tuesday 26 November - Readings St ...

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Free