Dangerous deceptions and delusions

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

Authors Sulari Gentill, Megan Goldin and Carolyn Morwood debate unreliable narrators, the blurring of truth and fiction, and much much more with Robyn Walton. Crossing the Lines (Pantera Press), Sulari Gentill’s new stand-alone murder mystery, explores what happens when the imagined becomes better than reality. Madeleine d’Leon is fixated on the story of Edward ‘Ned’ ...

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$10 – $17

Sandi Wallace and Sue Williams in line-up of 2017 Coal Creek Literary Festival

Rural crime writers (and Sisters in Crime members) Sue Williams and Sandi Wallace are among a cast of ten authors talking about their books and writing at this year’s Coal Creek Literary Festival. At 11.30-12.15pm, Sue and Sandi will be chatting about their latest releases—the second books in their respective series—and penning crime stories. Sandi ...

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$5 – $10

Jane Harper, in conversation with Leigh Redhead about Force of Nature

The Sun Bookshop 10 Ballarat Street, Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

Join Jane Harper, who won two Davitts (Best Adult Novel and Readers' Choice) for  THE DRY,  in conversation with crime author Leigh Redhead* about Jane’s new novel FORCE OF NATURE. Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. The hike through the ...

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Free

Bouchercon 2017 – Passport to Murder (Toronto 12-15 October)

Bouchercon is the annual world mystery convention in North America where every year readers, writers, publishers, editors, agents, booksellers and other lovers of crime fiction gather for a 4-day weekend of education, entertainment, and fun! Guests of Honour | Bouchercon 2017 Guests of Honour Canadian Guest of Honour: Louise Penny Louise Penny didn’t begin her writing career ...

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Launch of Dark Matters: A Novel by Susan Hawthorne

Collected Works 1/37 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria

You are all invited to the launch of Dark Matters:A Novel (Spinifex Press) by Susan Hawthorne. Launcher: Marion Campbell How do we pass on stories hidden by shame and resistance to shame? Collected Works, 1/37 Swanston Street, Melbourne 6 for 6.30pm Wednesday 18 October

Free

Launch of Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra

The Curtin 29 Lygon Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

You are all invited to the Launch of Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra's second novel. Award-winning crime novelist Emma Viskic (Ressurection Bay, When Fire Came Down) will be launching Anna Snoekstra’s second novel ‘Little Secrets’. Come for stories, performances, book signing and music. Local musicians will be performing songs featured within the pages of Little ...

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Free

Global Frictions: How widespread misconceptions about language cause systemic failures in the justice system

RMIT City Campus, Storey Hall (Building 16) Level 7, Green Brain Conference Rooms 1 & 2,, 336–348 Swanston St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A Seminar Series hosted by the Centre for Global Research Ignorance is not bliss. How widespread misconceptions about language cause systemic failures in the justice system OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Presenter:  Dr Georgina Heydon, Director, Centre for Global Research, RMIT University, President, International Association of Forensic Linguists. (Dr Heydon spoke at Sisters in Crime 2013 Law Week event - a total ...

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Free

Sensational seconds

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

Authors Emma Viskic, Anna Snoekstra and J M Green discuss how to triumph over ‘second novel syndrome’ and much much more with Maggie Baron. To be followed by the AGM. And Fire Came Down (Bonnier Publishing) Emma Viskic’s second novel, again features Caleb Zelic, a deaf private detective. When a young woman is killed after ...

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$10 – $17

The Killer Weekend (London)

Browns Covent Garden 82-84 St. Martins Lane,, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

Killer Women Want to write a crime novel? Got an idea but unsure how to progress it? Like to know more about how to get published? Keen to pitch your idea to top editors and agents? Enjoy a weekend of practical workshops, exclusive masterclasses and pitch sessions given by top crime writers, publishers and agents, ...

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£275