BAD: ALL ABOUT CRIME PODCAST
BAD hosts and guests discuss topics and themes in crime fiction and true crime.
BAD: ALL ABOUT CRIME BOOKCLUB
A forum for our BAD Community of crime lovers, readers and writers to discuss the books, including those featured in our monthly podcast.
BAD: ONLINE
Online interviews with Australian and International crime writers.
NEXT EVENT: Will be announced soon!
BAD: ALL YEAR
In-person events throughout Sydney in association with libraries.
NEXT EVENT:TANYA BRETHERTON: The Husband Poisoner Tuesday, June 15th.
Candice Fox is at the top of her form in The Chase.
It is gripping from the first to the last line.
When 653 violent human beings pour out from Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, including serial killers from Death Row, the biggest manhunt in history begins. Death row supervisor Celine Osbourne turns fugitive hunter. Her mission? To catch John Kradle who is trying to prove his innocence, five years after being convicted of the murder of his wife and child. Celine is determined to catch him. She has very personal reasons for hating him – and she knows exactly where he’s heading.
- THURSDAY, 13TH MAY
- FROM 6 – 7PM
- Zoom (Online Platform)
- TICKETS: $10
Candice Fox
Candice Fox is one of Australia’s most acclaimed crime writers. Her first and second novels, Hades and Eden, won back-to-back Ned Kelly awards in 2014 and 2015. Her subsequent novels – Fall, Crimson Lake, Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight – were all shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award, and Crimson Lake is currently being adapted for television as Troppo.
She also collaborates with James Patterson and their first book Never Never set in the outback was an immediate international bestseller. Their later novels – Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar, Hush Hush and The Inn – have all been massive bestsellers across the world.
Interviewer Michael Duffy
Michael Duffy has worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald as a reporter of crime and other urban issues, and is the author of a number of crime novels and true crime books including Drive By, The Tower and Sydney Noir, written with Nick Hordern. His latest book World War Noir was published in 2019 and also co-authored with Nick Hordern. He co-founded the publishing company Duffy and Snellgrove. He is on the board of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival which he founded with Denis Tracey.
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Join author Tanya Bretherton in conversation for BAD All Year as she discusses The Husband Poisoner - her book that explores real-life stories of murderous women in Sydney after World War II, and the chilling crime wave which saw women such as Caroline Grills and Yvonne Fletcher callously poison family members, using the household poison thallium, normally used to kill rats.
15 June @ Hawkesbury Library. Tickets $5.
AUTHOR TALK - TANYA BRETHERTON
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Join author Tanya Bretherton as she discusses her book that explores real-life stories of murderous women in Sydney.
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