Killer Cults – talk by Amanda Howard

Amanda Howard, series regular on Studio 10 ,will be giving a fascinating talk on Killer Cults and the Messianic minds of Cult Leaders. www.amandahoward.com.au Her talk is 12:30 – 1:30pm Psychic Sunday, Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, 634 The Horsley Drv, Smithfield https://www.psychicsunday.com.au/

$5

Domestic Noir: Why the family is a cauldron for crime

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

Murders, infidelity, custody disputes, abductions and incarcerations can bring domestic living to boiling point, making the home an unsafe place to be – especially for women and children. Together, host Vikki Petraitis and authors Anne Buist, Megan Norris and Emily Webb will compare and contrast the approaches taken by novelists and true crime authors to ...

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$10 – $17

Write On! Workshop with Jane Clifton

Meat Market Arts House 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Write On Workshop - Yes, W.O.W! Got a story to tell but don’t know where to start? Started a story but don’t know where to go next? Need some help, inspiration and a few pointers? Join Jane Clifton who has  written 4 crime novels and a memoir,  learned a lot along the way and is ...

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$80

Open invitation – launch of Amanda Howard’s new book,  Killing Time

Campbelltown City Library 1 Hurley St,, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia

Sisters in Crime members and supporters are all welcome to the launch of Amanda Howard's new book,  Killing Time. She returns to Campbelltown Library with the launch of her new book, a horror anthology of thrilling short stories. Followed by Q&A. www.amandahoward.com.au 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Wednesday  7 March Campbelltown City Library, 1 Hurley St, Campbelltown NSW 2560 Free ...

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Free

New venue: Open invitation to the launch of Once a Copper by Vikki Petraitis

Albert Park Primary School Hall Cnr Bridport St & Cardigan Place, Albert Park, Vic, Australia

His car was firebombed by corrupt cops, and contracts taken out by notorious hitmen, but no one was off-limits to Brian 'Skull' Murphy’s fearless fight against crime. Best-selling true crime writer, Vikki Petraitis, brings Brian's story to national attention. Petraitis explores the many facets of The Skull’s story. Starting on the mean streets of South Melbourne, ...

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Free

BOOKED OUT!!!The secret life of a crime scene cleaner

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

Sisters in Crime Australia and the Port Phillip Library Service present … Sarah Krasnostein speaks to Ruth Wykes about Sandra Pankhurst who for 20 years has cleaned houses in which people have died – sometimes violently, sometimes through drugs and, very often, alone. Krasnostein’s debut book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay ...

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Free

Red Dirt Week – Fight for Your Genre Day (Crime) – Sydney

ASA Suite C1.05, 22-36 Mountain Street, Ultimo, NSW, Australia

Special Event Offer Book in at the ASA member price and save $100  on the Red Dirt Week - Fight for Your Genre Day (Crime) in Sydney $175 inc GST (normally $275 inc GST for non-members) Special offer expires 5pm AEDT Monday 12 March 2018, so be quick! About the day: Monday 19th March 2018, 10am-5pm  Suite C1.05 22-36 ...

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$175

Open Invitation: Hazel Edwards in conversation about Celebrant Sleuth

Hazel Edwards, author of 200 books and most famously her classic children's book, There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, has returned to crime with an  adult murder mystery, Celebrant Sleuth  The timing of her asexual celebrant sleuth book release, just happened to coincide with the changes in same sex marriage laws  and the attention ...

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Free

Past Imperfect: Delving into the swirl of history, murder and intrigue

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

Three debut authors – Dervla McTiernan, Sarah Schmidt and Katherine Kovacic – in conversation with Robyn Walton will discuss how their novels shine a light on unsolved crimes, both real and imagined. Dervla McTiernan’s novel, The Rúin (HarperCollins Australia), is set in Ireland. Detective Cormac Reilly is assigned to re-investigate a seemingly accidental overdose that happened twenty ...

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$10 – $17

Beyond The Whodunnit with Emily Maguire@NSW Writers Centre

NSW Writers Centre Garry Owen House, Callan Park, Balmain Rd, Rozelle, NSW, Australia

Join bestselling author Emily Maguire for her intensive one-day course Beyond the Whodunnit on Saturday 7 April, 10am-4pm. Crime is at the heart of many great novels regardless of where (or whether) that novel fits within the huge and diverse genre of crime fiction. In this workshop, we’ll look at how to create a believable world ...

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