Crime Every Mountain

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

Women’s crime writing has risen to new heights. It’s left the dry, dusty plains behind and headed for the hills or rather the mountains – with thrilling and chilling consequences. Claire Sutherland (The Crag), Bronwyn Hall (The Chasm), and Erina Reddan (Deep in the Forest) will talk to Leslie Falkiner-Rose, convenor and keen skier, about the challenges they have faced trying to get to the top.

$10 – $62

Lifting the petticoats: the underbelly of Regency England

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

Regency England wasn’t all balls, bodices, and beaux for those in high society. Markets and gentlemen’s clubs hid secrets, scandals, spies, escaped convicts, ruthless bounty hunters, and murders most foul, as revealed in two new books by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar (Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator) and Alison Goodman (The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin).

$10 – $62

Sisters in Crime@Europa on Alma: Secret Histories

Europa on Alma, 31 Alma Road,, St Kilda, Vic, Australia

Join Cassie Hamer (The Stranger at the Table) and Darcy Tindale (Burning Mountain) in conversation with fellow author, Tania Chandler about deadly family secrets and fatal friendships. Europa on Alma. Free event with complimentary wine and cheese.

Free

Murder, She Investigates: Sisters in Crime’s 19th Law Week event

Host ‘Judge’ Betty King explores tall tales and true of homicide investigations with former Homicide Squad detective Narrelle Fraser, forensic pathologist Joanna Glengarry, and defence barrister Zoe Broughton. Who does what and with (and to) whom in the course of a murder investigation, from the collection of evidence, the interrogation of suspects, the laying of charges, and the trial? And what interesting things happen along the way?

$10 – $22