BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival
Crystal Ball Gazing: Where to from Here for Australian Crime Fiction?
Tickets are:
Standard: $36.00 + $1.38 booking fee
Concession: $30.00 + $1.25 booking fee
Bookings are essential.
Join me, Tim Ayliffe, Daniel Pilkington and Anna Valdinger, along with facilitator Michael Brissenden.
Is the future a genre mashup – a bit of cozy, detective and thriller with YA in the mix? Are investigators moving to the wings while victims take centre stage? Will the voices of the marginalised be amplified? Can crime novels be less about problem-solving and restoring a sense of order? Hear from us about the ways crime writing is changing.
Come and say hello; we’d love to see you!
More information on the event: https://www.badsydney.com/program/crystal-ball-gazing-where-to-from-here-for-australian-crime-fiction/
Available 27th October 2026 | Pre-Order NOW
The Buried
Book 4 in the Kalgoorlie Crime Series
A place to hide. A secret to bury.
The fourth thrilling novel in the bestselling Kalgoorlie series
A fiery car crash into a shop is only the beginning ...
When a car slams into a Kalgoorlie corner store, Detective Angie Sullivan hopes that it is a chance mishap. But as she starts an investigation, unsettled by the arrival of a new detective from Perth, she is drawn into something darker than it first appears.
The death of a local homeless man at the same time seems at first to be a tragic accident. But inconsistencies at the scene - the abandoned mineshaft where he lived - suggest a more sinister truth.
Angie and her team must grapple with secrets, betrayals and murder to unravel a mystery that stretches back across decades.
Praise for Fleur McDonald's Kalgoorlie novels:
'Superb writing and storytelling' — The Australian
'McDonald's great factuality, the amazing plot twist (which I didn't see coming at all) and superb writing kept me hooked' — Good Reading
'In this atmospheric murder mystery with convincingly drawn detectives and well-constructed plot, readers can happily add The Witness to the pile of reliable rural crime' — The Age