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SUMMARY:Law & Disorder
DESCRIPTION:Book here\n\n\n\n\nLawyers have a rich tradition of dominating crime and legal fiction\, heavily shaping the genre’s tropes and real-world understanding. Drawing on the tradition pioneered by Scott Turow\, John Grisham\, and Sujata Massey\, are three Australian authors – Rebecca Lim\, Joanna Jenkins\, and Eve Thomson – whose investigations traverse top male-dominated law firms\, an Art Deco apartment complex\, and an elite school’s girls’ football team. They’ll be admitting all to host\, Melbourne author\, Lyn Yeowart. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Graduate (Affirm Press)\, Rebecca Lim’s 2026 legal thriller\, is promoted as “The Firm meets Girl with a Dragon Tattoo”. It centres on a new graduate at the prestigious EW+L Law Firm who doesn’t fit. She is softly spoken\, covered in makeup\, and Asian. What her colleagues don’t know is that Fei Fei Chou has got much bigger things on her mind than winning a job. She is there for revenge. On her hunt\, she will wade into dark and shameful secrets that haunt not only her new employers but the whole of Australia. In her search for justice\, Fei may have to risk her life. \n\n\n\nRebecca is a Melbourne writer\, editor\, and lawyer\, and the author of over twenty books\, including Tiger Daughter (a Kirkus\, Amazon\, and Booklist Best Book\, CBCA Book of the Year\, and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award-winner)\, Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky (NSW History Award-winner)\, and the bestselling Mercy. The Graduate is her first adult novel. More info here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrisbane-based Joanna Jenkins is the author of three novels with a legal twist – How to Kill a Client (2023)\, The Bluff (2025)\, and\, in August\, Bad Neighbours\, all featuring lawyer Ruth Dawson. In Bad Neighbours (Allen & Unwin)\, Ruth has found her ideal living space in an Art Deco building in Potts Point\, The Lumen. A twenty-minute walk from her law office in the city\, the apartment boasts parquetry flooring\, a wall of books\, and Harbour Bridge views from the sofa. It’s perfect until Ben\, the homeless guy\, dies under the corrugated iron lean-to in the garden where he lived. Her fellow residents are not happy when Ruth brings in a detective. But she’s certain Ben was poisoned\, and one of her neighbours knows it too. \n\n\n\nAfter graduating from the University of Queensland with degrees in English Literature and Law\, Joanna practised as a solicitor\, including many years as a partner of an international law firm. She now writes full-time. More info here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEve Thomson’s Smother (Echo Publishing) is a legal thriller that combines Thomson’s courtroom expertise with the world of children’s competitive sports. It features lawyer Romola Cross\, the protagonist from her debut novel\, She Too (2023). The novel is set in a leafy Melbourne suburb’s private school\, Bruce College\, where a girls’ football program known for producing stars faces a crisis when a player sustains a catastrophic brain injury.  \n\n\n\nEve is a partner at a leading Australian law firm\, where she’s a litigator\, working on everything from class actions and media law to consumer protection. Eve lives at the beach in South Australia with her family. More info here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHost Melbourne consulting writer and editor\, Lyn Yeowart\, is the author of two crime novels. Her debut\, The Silent Listener (Penguin Books)\, won the 2022 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction\, was a finalist in the UK People’s Book Prize\, and was shortlisted for three other national awards in Australia. The Hollow Girl\, centred on a home for unmarried mothers deep in the Victorian countryside\, came out last year. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMen or ‘brothers-in-law’ welcome. \n\n\n\nSun Bookshop stall: Sisters in Crime members receive a 10% discount \n\n\n\n$55 – $65  Entry and dinner combined charge: $65 non-members\, $60 concession\, $57 Sisters in Crime and Writers Victoria members\, $55 under 19. Tickets not sold prior to the event will be available at the door for $67/$62/$59/$57. Dinner orders need to be placed by 7:00 pmNote: the panel starts at 8:00 pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional information: Carmel Shute\, Programming Coordinator\, 0412 569 356; admin@sistersincrime.org.au
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LOCATION:The Rising Sun Hotel\, cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road\, South Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3205\, Australia
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SUMMARY:BOOKED OUT! Melbourne Rare Book Week: Digging for Dirt – Criminal inspiration from the archives
DESCRIPTION:Book here\n\n\n\n\nSisters in Crime and the Prahran Mechanics Institute are partnering to present this special Melbourne Rare Book Week event\, 5.30 for 6.00 pm\, Tuesday 28 July. \n\n\n\nTara Oldfield and Lucy Sussex will be discussing the critical role that archival research plays in creating historical crime writing\, both fiction and non-fiction. Using primary sources—such as police records\, court transcripts\, newspaper accounts\, and diaries – helps create authentic narratives and enables characters to solve mysteries.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Oldfield’s debut novel\, Diamonds\, Furs and Murder: The Many Crimes of Mona Hayes (Ginninderra Press\, March\, 2026) is an historical fiction inspired by the life and crimes of little-known 1930s’ thief Mona Hayes. \n\n\n\nWhile working at Public Record Office Victoria\, Tara happened upon the files of the fascinating 1930s’ Melbourne criminal Mona and her criminal mates. Ten years of research and writing later\, Tara’s historical fiction novel\, inspired by these real-life crims\, was born. \n\n\n\nMona Hayes was described by police as a well-educated\, exceptionally clever crook – if she sees something she wants\, she takes it. Diamonds\, watches\, and furs are Mona’s weakness. Not to be deterred by jail time\, she hones her craft\, performing cons on shopkeepers and charming the police. But when Mona falls in love with the mysterious Albert Sharpe\, she quickly goes from petty crook to killer – then disappears from the public record. More info. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Sussex’s abiding interest in the hidden narratives to be revealed from research began as a reference librarian. Later\, the task of identifying the woman behind Waif Wander led to a quest lasting years\, finding over 500 short stories and even more pseudonyms. Often\, a clue in a digitised newspaper will lead to cross-referencing\, using both digitised records and hardcopy archival research. She has crossed the globe virtually\, and actually\, in search of facts. She is currently working on the queer life of writer Fergus Hume\, using archival research about his blackmailers.  \n\n\n\nLucy’s most recent books are the 2025 Outrageous Fortunes\, a biography of crime writer Mary Fortune and her criminal son George; and Nothing but Murders\, a collection of Fortune’s detective fiction\, both with Megan Brown. Lucy has abiding interests in women’s lives\, Australiana\, and crime fiction. Her award-winning fiction includes the novel\, The Scarlet Rider (1996\, reprint Ticonderoga 2015)\, and her anthology She’s Fantastical was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. She has five short story collections.  \n\n\n\nHer 2015 book\, Fergus Hume & The Mystery of a Hansom Cab: The Story of the Crime Novel that Became a Global Publishing Phenomenon (Text)\, won the History Publication Award in the Victorian Community History Prizes. Lucy’s Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century (2012) examines the mothers of the mystery genre. More info. \n\n\n\nMen or ‘brothers-in-law’ welcome. \n\n\n\nFree\, but please book by 12 pm Monday\, 27 July. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional information: Carmel Shute\, Sisters in Crime Programming Coordinator\, 0412 569 356; admin@sistersincrime.org.au
URL:https://sistersincrime.org.au/event/melbourne-rare-book-week-digging-for-dirt-criminal-inspiration-from-the-archives/
LOCATION:Prahran Mechanics Institute\, 39 St Edmonds Road\, Prahran\, VIC\, 3181\, Australia
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