Category Archives: Crime

Thrillers, whodunnits, dreadful deeds – how do you write them?

JANE HARPER – Exiles

This is the third and last book in the series that features investigator  Aaron Falkes. A baby is found, carefully swaddled in a pram and her young mother is never found. Years later, the daughter begins to ask questions and long buried truths begin to emerge.

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Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2024

CHRIS HAMMER – The Seven

Ivan enters The Drover’s Rest, searching for Toxteth McGrath. He finds him in the ‘VIP’ lounge – playing the pokies! Another sleazy hotel, another dark mystery in a small town – how can you go wrong? The Seven are the original families that settled this town and still try to control everything that happens in it. Chris Hammer is one of Australia’s major crime writers.

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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024

MAX BARRY – The 22 Murders of Madison May

MAX BARRY – The 22 Murders of Madison May

Can you kill the same person 22 times? Well you can if you can travel between parallell universes. Seeking the perfect version of a woman he believes he loves, a murderer believes he must eliminate ‘imperfect’ versions of Madison May. Who will stop him? In this read, Madison is a real estate agent who unwittingly has made an appointment with a ‘client’.

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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024

BENJAMIN STEVENSON

Everyone on this train is a suspect

Benjamin Stevenson writes very funny but totally serious take offs of the crime fiction genre. In this read, a crime writer is stuck on a train with five other crime writers, and one of them is murdered!

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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024

TIM WATSON-MUNRO – A Shrink in the Clink

 It’s a great title – and it perfectly describes the real life experiences of Tim Watson-Munro a criminal Psychologist. Weird, funny and terrifying true tales as Watson-Munro reveals some of the warped minds behind some of the country’s major crimes. In this read, Tim is trapped on a small plane with passenger terrified of flying.

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Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2023

ANNE BUIST – Locked Ward

A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes to mental health issues, written by an author who has had over 25 years of clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry.

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Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023

CHRIS HAMMER – The Tilt

Homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town and finds secrets, lies and cover ups. The more she uncovers, the more danger she is in – but how can she stop with the knowledge she now has? The latest from award winning author Chris Hammer.

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Recorded at BAD 2023