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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

Crime Writing Workshop with Vikki Petraitis

Geelong Courthouse Youth Arts 60 Little Malop St, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Ever thought about writing a crime novel? Or perhaps writing a short crime story to enter into Sisters in Crime Australia's Scarlet Stiletto competition or submit to the Geelong Writers Anthology? This 3 hour Crime Writing workshop with best-selling author Vikki Petraitis will give you plenty of tips on where to start, what to include, and how to engage your audience. Vikki is ...

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$35

Felonious communities and fractured families

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

Jennifer Lane, Jennifer Spence and Joanna Baker talk to Vikki Petraitis about the murderous intertwining of love and family secrets, and its place in broader society.   All Our Secrets (Rosa Mira Books, 2017; Clan Destine Press, 2018), by ex-patriate Jennifer Lane, is set in the small fictional NSW town of Coongahoola where hundreds of ‘Believers’ arrive ...

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$12 – $22

Open invitation – Brisbane launch of Caroline de Costa’s, Blood Sisters (Wild Dingo Press)

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

Sisters in Crime Cairns member, Caroline de Costa, will be in conversation with author and Sisters in Crime member, Christina Lee, for the launch of Blood Sisters, Caroline’s third novel in her Cass Diamond series set in FNQ. 6-8 pm, Tuesday 30 April, Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, West End. Blood Sisters explores sex trafficking and abortion, teenage ...

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Law Week event # stalking # trolling # cyberbullying with image of computer mouse and Victoria Law Foundation

Stalking, trolling and cyberbullying

Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University City Queen Street Campus, Lecture Theatre G02 295 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Sisters in Crime is again proud to join forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University, to present its 13th Law Week event, kindly sponsored by Victoria Law Foundation. Ginger Gorman, Emma A Jane, and Rachel Cassidy talk to The Age journalist Wendy Tuohy about the newish crime of cyberhate and the not-so-new crime ...

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$12 – $22

CANCELLED Brisbane Chapter Meeting – Writing a Good Synopsis!

Brisbane Square Library 266 George St, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Writing a Good Synopsis RSVP is essential please as we may not have the numbers due to election day. sistersincrimeqld@gmail.com Date: Saturday 18 May 2019 Time: 10.30am to 1pm Location: The Community Meeting Room, Brisbane Square Library, 266 George St, Brisbane City. The meeting room is on the ground floor. As you enter, walk towards ...

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