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

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

Bookings open til 4pm Friday: ‘Body in the Library’ readings to launch the 25th Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street,, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

This year, the Scarlet Stiletto Awards offer more than $10,000 in prize money for the best crime or mystery short stories. Since 2012, the Melbourne Athenaeum Library has sponsored the ‘Body in the Library’ Award by offering a $1000 prize to the winner and $500 to the runner-up. This partnership has seen the number of ...

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$10 – $15

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

18th Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women

The George Swinburne Building, 2nd floor 34 Wakefield Street,, Hawthorn, Vic, Australia

Proudly supported by Swinburne University of Technology, Department of Media and Communication and the Danish Arts Foundation Frock up and join us for champagne and canapés as we present Sisters in Crime’s annual Davitt Awards with our international guest, Danish author Sissel Jo-Gazan. Harlequin Australia has kindly donated 100 proof copies  of Anna Snoekstra's new ...

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$48

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

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

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

Word for Word Festival – Vikki Petraitis and Robin Bowles – Truth is Stranger than Fiction

Geelong Library & Heritage Centre 51 Little Malop St, Geelong, Vic, Australia

Leading true crime writers Vikki Petraitis, Robin Bowles (Australia’s True Crime Queen), and Clan Destine Press founder Lindy Cameron make a case for their grimly challenging genre. Inspiration Space, Level Two, Geelong Library & Heritage Centre  Adult $22 Concession $18.50 Bookings:https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=429681     

$18.50 – $22.00