Fri 16 Oct · 8pm
Rising Sun Hotel · South Melbourne
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The Rising Sun Hotel, 2 Raglan Street, South Melbourne.
From 6.30 pm for dinner. The panel discussion starts at 8 pm. The price includes a main course meal and the panel. Followed by a short Annual General Meeting.
With the world gone to hell in a handbasket, more and more readers are turning to cosy crime – sex and violence happen offstage, the main investigator is usually an amateur sleuth, and the story is set in a close-knit, small community. Spearheading the investigations are often librarians, retirees, chefs, or neighbours, rather than professional police officers. Not too much gore!! Luckily, Australian authors are on the mark.
Penny Tangey, Kate Solly, and A.M. Stuart will be exploring the joys (and challenges) of cosy crime with Alison Goodman, the multi-award-winning novelist and New York Times best-seller.
Penny Tangey’s first adult novel, What Rhymes with Murder (Summit Books Australia), starts with exhausted new mother Frida attending a Baby Rhyme Time session at East Melbourne Library when a piercing scream is heard, followed by the thump of a body. Before long, Frida finds herself part of an unlikely group of sleuths investigating the murder.
Penny Tangey is a librarian and mother living in East Melbourne. Penny has worked as a researcher for TV quiz shows Hard Quiz and The Chase, but she’s still terrible at trivia. She’s published a number of children’s books with UQP, one of which, As Fast as I Can (2020), won a Queensland Literary Award and the Readings…
Quick answers
When is The comfort of cosy crime?
Fri 16 Oct 2026, 8pm.
Where is it?
Rising Sun Hotel, South Melbourne, VIC.
How much are tickets?
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