Fabulous, feisty, fun & Phryne: Celebrating the life of Kerry Greenwood
Join us for High Tea at Phryne Fisher’s favourite hotel, The Windsor. Celebrate the life and legacy of the wonderful Kerry Greenwood.
historical crime fiction
Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective
A missing maid. A murder most foul. A highly imprudent adventure. Only her fine eyes can uncover the truth.
Two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Miss Caroline Bingley is staying at her brother’s country estate close to Pemberley, wondering if there’s more to life than cribbage and paying calls.
So when Georgiana Darcy’s maid, Jayani, vanishes and Georgiana disappears in search of her, Caroline races after them to London, only to discover a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
Murder Monday: Nilima Rao
Award winning Nilima Rao shares her ‘how to’ writing tips with Sisters’ Jacq Ellem. How much research does she do, given her stories are set in Fiji? What did she discover about her writing that she wasn’t prepared for?
Deception Bay
Codebreakers and Queensland police corruption feature in this historic crime novel set in Brisbane during WW2. An apparent suicide, then a tattooed arm found floating in the river… and a city full of US troops.
The past is never dead: mysteries that challenge history
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 at 8pm Friday 21 February at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel Sulari Gentill is the award-winning author of 14 books including the Rowland Sinclair series set …