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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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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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Open invitation – Author encounter with J. M. Green re Shoot Through (Geelong)

Corio Library Cox Road (cnr Moa Street), Norlane, Vic, Australia

J.M. Green will be 'in conversation' with Sisters in Crime national co-convenor, Tara Mitchell, about Shoot Through, the third book in her Stella Hardy trilogy. Thursday, 5 December, 6:30pm to 7:30pm - Corio Library, Cox Road (cnr Moa Street), Norlane, VIC 3214 Free but please book: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/jm-green-shoot-through-corio-library-tickets-80599787133 J.M. Green is a crime writer based in Melbourne’s western suburbs. ...

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CLEARWAY: CREATE THE SPACE the annual writers competition and performances

Have you got a short story in the first person to tell? Join the adventure in 2020 as Voices of Women presents CLEARWAY: CREATE THE SPACE the annual writers competition and performances. Hear your own short stories performed live by amazingly powerful women actors in rehearsed readings beginning in Sydney and travelling to regional NSW! ...

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$15

Open invitation: Launch of Riptides by Kirsten Alexander@Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick (Melbourne)

Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick 434 Glen Huntly Rd.,, Elsternwick, VIC, Australia

Everyone is invited to come to the launch of Kirsten Alexander's latest historical thriller, Riptides (Bantam Australia, February 2020), set in suburban Brisbane in the 1970s. Thursday 6 February, 6pm for 6.30pm start: Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick 434 Glen Huntly Rd., Elsternwick. Writer Toni Jordan, who also grew up in Brisbane, will do the honours. Kirsten has worked ...

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Dervla McTiernan in conversation with Karina Kilmore@Readings Hawthorn

Readings Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawtthorn, VIC, Australia

Readings Hawthorn is delighted to have bestselling and much-acclaimed crime writer Dervla McTiernan over from Perth to talk about her third Cormac Riley novel, The Good Turn. With police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl’s silence – three seemingly unconnected events that will prove to be linked ...

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Wendy Lewis in conversation@Better Read Than Dead (Newtown, Sydney)

Better Read Than Dead 265 King St.,, Newtown, NSW, Australia

Who is Richard Hauptmann? Why should he forgive us? And can a true crime writer write short stories? Find out at this free event for book lovers looking for something a little out-of-left-field. Wendy Lewis discusses her new short story collection Please Forgive Us, Richard Hauptmann with Ashley Kalagian Blunt! Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at ...

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Karina Kilmore in conversation@Better Read Than Dead (Sydney)

Better Read Than Dead 265 King St.,, Newtown, NSW, Australia

When both Jane Harper and Christian White call a book compelling, that’s a good reason to pick it up. In Where the truth lies, investigative journalist with a troubled past, Chrissie O’Brien, becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about the apparently accidental death of a female dockworker she thinks was murder. This puts her ...

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POSTPONED: Karina Kilmore in conversation@Readings St Kilda (Vic)

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

Karina Kilmore, debut author and Sisters in Crime national co-convenor, will be interrogated by high profile true-crime writer Andrew Rule about her new thriller Where the Truth Lies. Join us for a gripping evening of all things crime. Where the Truth Lies, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and ...

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