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The Mystery and HIstory Tour@Traralgon Library

Traralgon Library 35-38 Kay St,, Traralgon, Vic, Australia

L.J.M. Owen & Lindy Cameron, writers of rollicking archaeological mysteries, will be in conversation at Traralgon Library on  Sunday August 19, 3.30 pm. The Intermillennial Sleuth series by L.J.M. Owen series follows Dr Elizabeth Pimms, archaeologist and librarian, as she solves ancient crimes using 21st century techniques. With really cold cases and odern family secrets, this charming crime series focuses on forgotten women’s ...

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Free

Extreme situations elicit unusual crimes

Rising Sun Hotel 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia

  First 25 to book get a free (proof) copy of  Anna Snoekstra’s new book, The Spite Game,  kindly donated by Harlequin Australia. Megan Goldin, Susi Fox and Pip Drysdale talk to Janice Simpson about deception and delusion, revenge and retribution, and how Sun Tzu’s The Art of War helps if you’re hellbent on making him pay. Megan ...

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$12 – $20
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Dames versus Dicks Great Crime Writing Debate: Who does it better?

Big Mouth cnr Acland and Barkly Streets, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

St Kilda Writers Week, 30 September – 7 October On trial is the wit of some of Australia’s finest crime writers. The Dames and The Dicks argue each other’s case for Who does it better?, the question that lies at the criminal heart of the battle of the sexes. The Prosecutor: Lindy Cameron The Dames: Vikki ...

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$20

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Killer Reads: Why crime fiction knocks the socks off capital ‘L’ Literature

Ember Lounge 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

St Kilda Writers Week 30 September – 7 October stkildawritersweek.com Jacqui Horwood interrogates crime writers Sarah Bailey, Katherine Kovacic and Emma Viskic about the popular appeal of crime fiction.   Sarah Bailey took up a life in crime (writing) after 15 years in the advertising industry. She now has two crime thrillers featuring Detective Gemma Woodstock ...

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$20
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How to get away with murder

Ember Lounge 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

St Kilda Writers Week 30 September – 7 October stkildawritersweek.com Writers Liz Porter and Maggie Baron take a humorous stab at forensics and crime literature to reveal what works – and what doesn’t – when it comes to making a killing. As an expert on the forensic mistakes that help put criminals behind bars, Liz ...

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$20
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True Crime: Digging out the truth

Rising Sun Hotel 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Authors Rachael Brown, Kate Wild and Maryrose Cuskelly talk to Vikki Petraitis about how persistence and perspicacity pay off when it comes to investigating crime.   Last year, journalist Rachael Brown made headlines with her cold-case investigation into the murder of single mother Maria James at her Thornbury bookshop in 1980. Using this material, she ...

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$12 – $22

Sisters in Crime Queensland – November meeting

Queensland Art Gallery Stanley Place, South Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Sisters in Crime members and all interested crime writers and readers are invited to attend the November meeting  in Brisbane: Saturday  10 November, 12:00-12:30pm (12 for those who want to order food and/or drink and chat.)  12:30pm - 2:30pm Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) Cafe,  Stanley Pl, South Brisbane Cost: Free (if you’re not eating or drinking.) RSVP Please could you ...

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25th Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Thornbury Theatre, Velvet Room 859 High Street, Thornbury, Victoria, Australia

Presented by Kate Atkinson, star of Wentworth and Cate Kennedy, short story guru, in collaboration with crime author and performer Jane Clifton This year, 201 short stories written by Australian women compete for $9760 in prize money. The first-prize winner will also take home a spectacular scarlet stiletto trophy. Kate Atkinson has a long criminal ...

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$58

Open invitation – event launch, Missing Pieces (Wild Dingo Press) by Caroline de Costa

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

Cairns author, Caroline de Costa, will be in conversation with Sisters in Crime's Carmel Shute about Missing Pieces, her  second novel in the series featuring Cairns Aboriginal detective Cass Diamond.  It is a sequel to Double Madness, which was shortlisted in the Davitt Awards in 2016. This time round, the reinvestigation of the case of a toddler ...

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Jane Harper in conversation with Angela Savage about The Lost Man

Upstairs at the Athenaeum  Level 2, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

The Melbourne Athenaeum Library and Sisters in Crime Australia take pleasure in presenting Jane Harper and Angela Savage as they discuss Jane’s latest best-seller, The Lost Man (Pan Macmillan, 2018), a stand-alone thriller set in outback Queensland. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun. They are at ...

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$15 – $20