What an entertainer! Lynda La Plante, creator of Prime Suspect, over 40 novels and numerous television productions, talked about her stellar career and her latest book, Vanished, with Sisters in Crime’s Jacqui Horwood on 27 April. Free to view.
Sisters in Crime Australia is again proud to join forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University, to present its 16th Law Week event.
An expert panel – Soren Blau, Tracie Gould, and Liz Porter – will debate with chair Coroner Audrey Jamieson as to what makes forensic science work and what can sometimes make it go wrong.
Warm up for the DicksVs Dames Debate at 5pm with relaxed one-on-one author talks with Crime on the Couch, pesented by Sisters in Crime. Great fun and you get to ask questions.
Sisters in Crime Australia & the St Kilda Writers' Festival present the return of the Great Crime Writing Debate, Dicks vs Dames: “The female of the species is deadlier than the male”
Everyone welcome - Sydney author (and Sisters' member) Rae Cairns will be 'in conversation' with Melbourne author (and Sisters' member) Lyn Yeowart about her debut novel, The Good Mother (HarperCollins) - 7pm Thursday 30 June - Robinsons The Glen.
Authors Kimberley Starr, Margaret Hickey and Vikki Petraitis will examine why and how women are too often shafted with Moraig Kisler, Sisters in Crime’s review editor. It's a live event, back at the Rising Sun in South Melbourne. Hooray!
Sisters in Crime NSW invites you to take another peek behind the curtain of criminal life
with Sydney authors Siobhan Mullany and Ann Penhallurick. Register for Zoom link. 5-6.15 pm, Sunday 24 July.
In partnership with Sisters in Crime Australia and Port Phillip Libraries, aspiring author and trained forensic scientist Maggie Baron speaks with authors Kimberley Starr (The Map of Night ) and Sue Williams (Death at the Belvedere) about how science provides such fertile raw material for crime and mystery novels.
Some of Australia’s most popular female crime writers will converge on the Bega Valley on Saturday 27 August for the Sisters in Crime writers’ festival. The line-up includes Candice Fox, Vikki Petraitis, Fleur Ferris, Ilsa Evans, Kay Schubach, Caroline de Costa, and Dorothy Johnston.
Frock up (or suit up) and join us for an à la carte dinner as Louise Milligan presents Sisters in Crime’s annual Davitt Awards - 6 for 6.30 pm, Saturday 27 August, Rising Sun Hotel, South Melbourne. She'll be talking to Jacqui Horwood before presenting the awards.