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

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

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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Free

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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Free

UK author Adele Parks in-conversation with L.A. Larkin@Sutherland Library, Sydney

Sutherland Library 30/36 Belmont St.,, Sutherland , NSW, Australia

This is your chance to hear UK writer Adele Parks on a brief trip to Australia talk about her latest book Lies, Lies, Lies, the portrait of a disintegrating marriage with dark secrets at its heart. Adele Parks is a bestselling women’s fiction author from the UK. She has sold over 3.5 million copies of ...

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Free

The past is never dead: mysteries that challenge history

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

Sulari Gentill, Kirsten Alexander and Kirsty Manning dissect their most recent historical mysteries with Dr Kelly Gardiner and detail what light these books shed on concerns of the present and of earlier eras. Sulari Gentill is the award-winning author of 14 books including the Rowland Sinclair series set in the 1930s. Crossing the Lines won ...

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$10 – $22

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

THE SUN THEATRE 8 Ballarat St, Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

Join Sisters in Crime for a special screening of Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, the stand-alone action-adventure feature film that picks up the story from the end of the third television series of the acclaimed Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. In her debut cinematic adventure, detective-extraordinaire the Hon. Miss Phryne Fisher embarks on an exotic 1920s ...

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$25

Dervla McTiernan in conversation with Karina Kilmore@Readings Hawthorn

Readings Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawtthorn, VIC, Australia

Readings Hawthorn is delighted to have bestselling and much-acclaimed crime writer Dervla McTiernan over from Perth to talk about her third Cormac Riley novel, The Good Turn. With police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl’s silence – three seemingly unconnected events that will prove to be linked ...

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Free

Wendy Lewis in conversation@Better Read Than Dead (Newtown, Sydney)

Better Read Than Dead 265 King St.,, Newtown, NSW, Australia

Who is Richard Hauptmann? Why should he forgive us? And can a true crime writer write short stories? Find out at this free event for book lovers looking for something a little out-of-left-field. Wendy Lewis discusses her new short story collection Please Forgive Us, Richard Hauptmann with Ashley Kalagian Blunt! Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at ...

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Free

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Write On with Jane Clifton@Acheron (Vic)

Marian Rennie Studio Gallery 132 Breakaway Rd, Acheron, Vic, Australia

On International Women’s Day, Saturday 8 March, crime writer (and Sisters in Crime member) Jane Clifton will present Write On! at Marian Rennie’s Studio Gallery in Acheron – just past Marysville and a bit before Alexandra. It’s a smidge over 2 hours from the Melbourne CBD. Workshoppers can come for the afternoon, organise a sleepover ...

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$130