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Open Invitation to the launch of Present Tense@Gleebooks, Sydney

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, Australia

Present Tense (Clan Destine Press) by Natalie Conyer, a riveting hard-boiled police procedural set in modern South Africa, is being launched by Matt McGuire, Associate Professor at Western Sydney University, Sunday 10 November, 3.30 for 4pm,  Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Present Tense takes us to Cape Town, to the thrilling, dangerous, new South Africa. Veteran cop ...

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Free

What happens when shame and secrets meet?

Melbourne Athenaeum Library First Floor, 188 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Find out when acclaimed Perth crime writer Sara Foster talks to Dr Robyn Walton about her latest mystery,  You Don't Know Me, out November with Simon & Schuster. Sara’s stunning new thriller revolves about the burden of shame and the disastrous consequences of hiding secrets. Sara Foster was born and raised in England, and moved ...

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$15 – $20

Sisters@GenreCon Brisbane

Cultural Centre Stanley Place,, South Brisbane, Qld, Australia

GenreCon 2019 is destined to be the best yet, featuring a smorgasbord of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction. It is a spectacular line up of panels, workshops and special events, where you can join over 200 writers, editors, agents and publishers for three days of celebrating genre. It features a number of ...

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$399 – $699

26th Scarlet Stiletto Awards

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

Geraldine Hakewill, star of Ms Fisher’s MODern Murder Mysteries and Wanted, will present the awards in collaboration with crime author and performer Jane Clifton after an in-conversation about her – if not their – life in crime. This year, 185 short stories written by Australian women competed for $10,060 in prize money. The first-prize winner ...

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$60

True Crime Sunday with Vikki Petraitis

Elsternwick Park Sports Club 70 Glenhuntly Road,, Elsternwick, Vic, Australia

What better way to an arvo: True Crime Sunday Vikki Petraitis talking about her life of true crime writing True Crime writer Vikki Petraitis will take you down the mean streets in an afternoon presentation of real Australian crime. The best-selling author of 14 books will talk about two of them: The Frankston Murders and ...

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$18 – $22

Open Invitation: Emma Viskic Book launch: Darkness for Light

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

Join in the launch of  the Emma Viskic's third instalment of her critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series, Darkness for Light by Sisters in Crime National Co-convenor, Tara Mitchell. After a lifetime of bad decisions troubled PI Zelic is finally making good ones. But he can’t escape his past. 6.30pm Tuesday 26 November - Readings St ...

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Free

PPCG fundraiser movie: Knives Out @ Classic Cinema Elsternwick (Melbourne)

Classic Cinema 9 Gordon St,, Elsternwick, Vic, Australia

Thursday 28 November, 6.30 pm Fundraiser movie night for Port Phillip Community Group screening of an Agatha Christie inspired murder mystery with a stellar cast including Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette,  and Don Johnson. Knives Out has already received great reviews. See trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGqiHJTsRkQ Tix: $30, $25 .For tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/BGIYI  

$25 – $30

Open invitation – Author encounter with J. M. Green re Shoot Through (Geelong)

Corio Library Cox Road (cnr Moa Street), Norlane, Vic, Australia

J.M. Green will be 'in conversation' with Sisters in Crime national co-convenor, Tara Mitchell, about Shoot Through, the third book in her Stella Hardy trilogy. Thursday, 5 December, 6:30pm to 7:30pm - Corio Library, Cox Road (cnr Moa Street), Norlane, VIC 3214 Free but please book: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/jm-green-shoot-through-corio-library-tickets-80599787133 J.M. Green is a crime writer based in Melbourne’s western suburbs. ...

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CLEARWAY: CREATE THE SPACE the annual writers competition and performances

Have you got a short story in the first person to tell? Join the adventure in 2020 as Voices of Women presents CLEARWAY: CREATE THE SPACE the annual writers competition and performances. Hear your own short stories performed live by amazingly powerful women actors in rehearsed readings beginning in Sydney and travelling to regional NSW! ...

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$15

Open invitation: Launch of Riptides by Kirsten Alexander@Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick (Melbourne)

Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick 434 Glen Huntly Rd.,, Elsternwick, VIC, Australia

Everyone is invited to come to the launch of Kirsten Alexander's latest historical thriller, Riptides (Bantam Australia, February 2020), set in suburban Brisbane in the 1970s. Thursday 6 February, 6pm for 6.30pm start: Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick 434 Glen Huntly Rd., Elsternwick. Writer Toni Jordan, who also grew up in Brisbane, will do the honours. Kirsten has worked ...

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