True Crimes

Last year, the trial of Erin Patterson for three murders, deemed “the Mushroom Murders”, took over newsfeeds and rejuvenated a cultural craving for crime.

In the wake of Erin’s sentencing, multi-award-winning writer and critic Sarah Krasnostein co-wrote The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder. In this panel discussion, Sarah joins journalist Debbie Whitmont whose latest book The Man Who Couldn’t Wait investigates the Vietnamese refugee Phuong Ngo’s conviction for Australia’s first political assassination in 1994.

Join Sarah and Debbie in discussion about the appetite for crime and how to write it well. With host Rosemarie Milsom.