This special event showcases the remarkable talents of three Melbourne women crime writers – Sarah Bailey, Mali Cornish, and Riley James. Sarah will talk to fellow crime author, Tanya Scott, about her latest thriller, Click. Mali Cornish and Riley James will read briefly from their forthcoming novels - The Missing Mother and The Wreck.
Murder mysteries and history books have a similar modus operandi. Both are concerned with whodunnit – and usually the why and how. Historical murder mysteries are doubly credentialled, as three authors with new books – Amanda Hampson, Natalie Conyer, and Tara Oldfield – will explore with host Maryanne Vagg.
Who better than newshounds to uncover mysteries and track down murderers? Three Melbourne authors, Louise Milligan (Shellybanks), Laraine Stephens (The White Feather Murders), and Madeleine Cleary (The Butterfly Women), talk about how and why journalists make such superlative investigators with former journalist and crime author, Dr Liz Porter.
Sisters in Crime Queensland presents A free online seminar for writers Ready Set Pitch! with Allie Reynolds and January Gilchrist Join Sisters-in-Crime QLD for a free interactive online seminar to polish your pitch. Hear how thriller writers Allie (SHIVER & THE BAY) and January (THE FINAL CHAPTER) landed international book deals, and what they did to ...
Perth: Sisters in Crime WA presents Amanda Hampson in conversation with Rachael Johns, to launch Amanda's new eagerly awaited book, The Model Murder. A Crime with Wine event, at The Red Room Leederville. Presented in conjunction with Books in the Brewery. Book here.
Exploring the many dimensions of poison as the ‘women’s weapon’ will be Chloe Hooper, co-author of The Mushroom Tapes; Linda Glowacki, toxicologist from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine & Angela Savage on Agatha Christie and poisons; and host Vikki Petraitis. Poison was historically considered the archetypal 'woman's weapon' as it required no special strength, only access and opportunity, things generally afforded women in their domestic role. Or is this an old, made-up sawhorse?
Sisters in Crime and the Prahran Mechanics Institute are partnering to present a special Melbourne Rare Book Week event , Digging for Dirt – Criminal inspiration from the archives. Tara Oldfield and Lucy Sussex will be discussing the critical role that archival research plays in creating historical crime writing, both fiction and non-fiction.