The
Sisters in Crime’s next event of interest is Friday, April 17 title Undercover, Under Fire and Under-appreciated takes
a look at the realities of modern policing in fact and fiction.
True
crime author Liz Porter interrogates two former police criminal
investigators about their different takes on their
experiences – one through memoirs, the other through the novel.
Over her 18-year career in the NSW police
force, Belinda Neil relished her roles as a homicide
investigator and hostage negotiator, but the horrors she saw and the years of broken
sleep led her to contemplate suicide by jumping off a cliff. She wrote Under Siege instead. Belinda shows us the remarkable job homicide
investigators and hostage negotiators perform, and the resilience and courage
they show in impossible
circumstances.
Pauline Toohey spent nearly 25 years as a member of
Victoria Police, working mainly as a crime analyst in Melbourne’s West with
stints at the Major Drug Investigation Department and Homicide. She took up
writing as a distraction to help her through one of those many ‘curve balls’
that life throws – and hasn’t stopped. First
publishing Pull of the Yew Tree, a novel set in 15th-century Ireland, and My Rickety Metronome, her debut crime
novel and first in a series, was released in January by UK publisher, Indigo Dreams Publishing.
The event is being held at The Rising Sun
Hotel, cnr Raglan St & Eastern Rd, South Melbourne. Free on-street parking after 6pm.
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