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BOOKED OUT!! Crime’s other victims: The professionals who deal with Australia’s most horrific murders

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

For its 12th Law Week event, Sisters in Crime Australia is joining forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University to explore the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to keep society safe – police officers, homicide detectives, paramedics, doctors, forensic scientists, a trauma cleaner – and an author who writes about murders. ...

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$10 – $15

Write On! Writing Class with Jane Clifton

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

Winter is coming!  Time to pack away the bathers and the sunblock and hunker down to write the great Australian novel, the essential family history, the most succinct and delicious short story Your pencil is sharpened, your laptop juiced, the notepad is open – but where to start? Already started but don’t know where to go ...

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$80

Open invitation to the launch of Accidental Death: when things may not be as they seem by Robin Bowles

Kelvin Club 14 Melbourne Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Please join us for the launch of Accidental Death: when things may not be as they seem by Robin Bowles. To be launched by Julian Burnside AO QC. This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this ...

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Free

True Crime at the Frankston RSL with Robin Bowles & Vikki Petraitis

Frankston RSL 183 Cranbourne Road, Frankston South, Vic, Australia

Join the Frankston RSL  for a night of True Crime with  Sisters in Crime members Robin Bowles & Vikki Petraitis Robin Bowles Robin Bowles has been writing crime since 1997, when she read the story of the death of Bonnie Doon housewife, Jennifer Tanner, and decided things didn’t add up. Robin writes about more than ...

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$10 – $15

Open invitation – launch of Liz Porter’s book, Crime Scene Asia: when forensic evidence becomes the silent witness

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

All crime fans are invited  to the launch of Liz Porter's latest forensics book. This time her focus is Asia. Crime Scene Asia: when forensic evidence becomes the silent witness contains 16 cases from Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, and one from Sydney, in which a Singaporean spent spent eight years in jail for ...

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Free

YA Crime – Is it all grown up?

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

Three authors – Ellie Marney, Sarah Epstein and Lili Wilkinson  – talk to Jacqui Horwood about how their Young Adult crime novels are transgressing the traditional boundaries with themes of sex, drugs, violence and much more …   Award-winning Guilford author, Ellie Marney, originally conceived her latest YA crime/romantic suspense novel, No Limits, as a spin-off to her ...

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$10 – $15

Captivating Criminality 5: Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders

Corsham Court, Bath Spa University,, Bath, United Kingdom

The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its fifth UK conference. Building upon and developing ideas and themes from the previous four successful conferences, Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders, will examine the ways in which Crime Fiction as a genre is able to incorporate both traditional ideas and themes, as well as those from ...

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£10 – £20

Small Towns, Big Secrets, Criminal Intentions

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

Sue Williams, Aoife Clifford and Kerry McGinnis talk to Hazel Edwards about how crime can stalk dusty country roads as readily as the mean streets of the big cities. Live and Let Fry (Text Publishing) is the third book by Sue Williams to feature Cass Tuplin, proprietor of the Rusty Bore Takeaway (and unlicensed private ...

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$10 – $15

Hemmeligheder – the secret of writing mystery – a talk (in Danish) by Danish author Sissel-Jo Gazan

Denmark House Level 3/428 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, vic, Australia

Sisters in Crime Australia and Denmark House are proud to present Hemmeligheder - the secret of writing mystery - a talk  (in Danish) by Danish author Sissel-Jo Gazan Thursday 2 August 6 pm at Denmark House Enjoy a communal 2 course meal $35 per person, drinks on consumption. Gazan, a biology graduate from the University of ...

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$35

Open invitation – Book launch: After the Lights Go Out

Readings Kids 315 Lygon St, Carlton, Vic

After the Lights Go Out is an utterly gripping new YA novel from Lili Wilkinson – a disaster survival story about a family of Doomsday preppers. What happens when the lights go off after what might truly be an end-of-the-world event? Come along to the novel’s launch and to hear Wilkinson in conversation with fellow author ...

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Free