Crime at its Best – Queenscliffe Literary Festival

Queenscliff Town Hall 50 Learmonth St, Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia

Author and Sisters in Crime member, Dorothy Johnston, will compere a panel of top crime writers - Jane Harper, Jock Serong and Mark Smith - at the Queenscliffe Literary Festival on Saturday 13 May. They'll be debating how their strong rural and coastal themes build their plots. The Queenscliffe Literary Festival runs each weekend over May. ...

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$30

Sea Change or Tree Change?: crime moves to the coast and country

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

Book tickets Sisters in Crime convenor and author Janice Simpson puts three crime authors under the spotlight – Leigh Straw, Sarah Bailey and Dorothy Johnston – to explore what happens when crime (fiction) shifts to the coast or country: to Fremantle, the fictional NSW country town of Smithson and Queenscliff, respectively. Leigh Straw is a ...

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$10 – $17

Open Invitation: Launch of Dorothy Johnston’s, Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune

Uniting Church - The Bay Room 85 Hesse Street, Queenscliff, Vic, Australia

Everyone is invited to join author (and long-time Sisters in Crime member) Dorothy Johnston for the launch of the third in her sea-change mystery series, Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune, to The Bookshop at Queenscliff. Janey Runci, Vice President of the Henry Handel Richardson Society, will do the honours. In Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune, local senior constable, Chris ...

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