Sisters@BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival

Justice & Police Museum Albert St & Phillip St, Sydney, NSW, Australia

BAD is back and bigger than ever!!  Weekend of 1- 2 September, Opening night Friday 31 August 2018 with a nuner of Sisters in Crime including Sue Turnbull, Candice Fox, Anna Snoekstra,  Megan Goldin Justice & Police Museum Due to popular demand, BAD Sydney is back for a second year running with an exciting program. Click ...

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$16.07 – $21.17

Extreme situations elicit unusual crimes

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

  First 25 to book get a free (proof) copy of  Anna Snoekstra’s new book, The Spite Game,  kindly donated by Harlequin Australia. Megan Goldin, Susi Fox and Pip Drysdale talk to Janice Simpson about deception and delusion, revenge and retribution, and how Sun Tzu’s The Art of War helps if you’re hellbent on making him pay. Megan ...

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$12 – $20

Murder Village

Melbourne’s Best Improvisers Bring Agatha Christie to the Fringe Melbourne’s favourite comedic improvisers will create seven original whodunnits from thin air in Murder Village, playing at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival. The hilarious murder mystery format, first developed for a sell-out run in Brisbane in 2016 under the banner of the city’s premier improvised theatre ...

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$20 – $24

Dames versus Dicks Great Crime Writing Debate: Who does it better?

Big Mouth cnr Acland and Barkly Streets, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

St Kilda Writers Week, 30 September – 7 October On trial is the wit of some of Australia’s finest crime writers. The Dames and The Dicks argue each other’s case for Who does it better?, the question that lies at the criminal heart of the battle of the sexes. The Prosecutor: Lindy Cameron The Dames: Vikki ...

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$20

True crime author Liz Porter @Dymocks Camberwell, First Tuesday Book Club

Barolo Trattoria Function Room 885 Burke Rd, Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Hear from 4 writers including true crime author (and Sisters in Crime member) Liz Porter:  Liz Porter is a journalist who began her career in Hong Kong and then worked in Sydney, London and Stuttgart before returning to her hometown of Melbourne, where she is now working as a freelance journalist. Liz does the occasional piece for ...

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$15

Killer Reads: Why crime fiction knocks the socks off capital ‘L’ Literature

Ember Lounge 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

St Kilda Writers Week 30 September – 7 October stkildawritersweek.com Jacqui Horwood interrogates crime writers Sarah Bailey, Katherine Kovacic and Emma Viskic about the popular appeal of crime fiction.   Sarah Bailey took up a life in crime (writing) after 15 years in the advertising industry. She now has two crime thrillers featuring Detective Gemma Woodstock ...

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$20

How to get away with murder

Ember Lounge 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

St Kilda Writers Week 30 September – 7 October stkildawritersweek.com Writers Liz Porter and Maggie Baron take a humorous stab at forensics and crime literature to reveal what works – and what doesn’t – when it comes to making a killing. As an expert on the forensic mistakes that help put criminals behind bars, Liz ...

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$20

True Crime: Digging out the truth

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

Authors Rachael Brown, Kate Wild and Maryrose Cuskelly talk to Vikki Petraitis about how persistence and perspicacity pay off when it comes to investigating crime.   Last year, journalist Rachael Brown made headlines with her cold-case investigation into the murder of single mother Maria James at her Thornbury bookshop in 1980. Using this material, she ...

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$12 – $22

Killer Women Festival: London

October 21st 2018 Browns Covent Garden Priority booking for Crime Club members On Sunday October 21st, 2018, we’re taking over the atmospheric and historic Courtrooms above Browns Restaurant in Covent Garden and packing them with events about crime novels, crime audio, crime television and true crime. There’ll be headline appearances from bestselling authors; we’ll be talking about ...

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£60

Open invitation CWA Richmond Branch presents… An evening with three local best-selling crime authors

Studio Nine Building Corner of Bendigo and Khartoum St, Richmond., VIC, Australia

Hear from Sisters in Crime authors Aoife Clifford, Emma Viskic and Anna George Aoife Clifford’s novel SECOND SIGHT was published in July 2018. Her bestselling first novel ALL THESE PERFECT STRANGERS was long listed for the Australian Industry General Fiction Book of the Year and the Voss Literary Prize. She has won both the Scarlet Stiletto and Ned Kelly Award for short stories and ...

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$22