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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

BOOKED OUT – A Black Saturday Crime

St Kilda Library 150 Carlisle Street , StKilda, VIc, Australia

Sisters in Crime Australia and the Port Phillip Library  Service present… 6 for 6.30pm, Thursday 14 February: A Black Saturday Crime Award-winning author Chloe Hooper talks to Robin Bowles about her latest book, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire ( (Hamish Hamilton). What kind of person would deliberately set a firestorm? Hooper asks. What kind of ...

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The past is never past: New mysteries with history

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

Toni Jordan, M J Tjia and Kirsten Alexander talk to Alison Goodman about why digging into the past provides such fertile themes and characters for crime writing. Award-winning Melbourne author Toni Jordan is the author of five novels. Her latest, The Fragments, is her first foray into the mystery world. Set in 1930s’ New York ...

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$12 – $20

Learned Crime with Dervla McTiernan

Athenaeum 2 Theatre 2nd Floor, 188 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

The Melbourne Athenaeum Library and Sisters in Crime Australia take pleasure in presenting Dervla McTiernan in conversation with Robyn Walton re Dervla’s latest book, The Scholar (out February). After several hotly contested publishing auctions, Dervla McTiernan’s debut novel, The Rúin (Harper Collins, 2018), became an instant bestseller which soared up the Australian charts and became ...

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$15 – $20