Crime does not just walk the mean streets of our cities. These days it is stalking the dusty backroads of the Australian bush. Authors Katherine Kovacic, Sandi Wallace and Lyn Yeowart discuss with Maggie Baron how and why the country is such an ideal scene of the crime – and the many insights that ‘rural noir’ novels offer into life, now and in the past.

Compere: Maggie Baron

Panellists:

 Lyn Yeowart. Her debut novel is The Silent Listener (Viking, an Imprint of Penguin)

“Propelling the reader back and forth between the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s, [it] is an unforgettable literary suspense novel set in the dark, gothic heart of rural Australia.” Praised by Sue Turnbull in The Age, SMH etc  as “unforgettable”.

Katherine Kovacic Her latest novel in the Alex Clayton series is the much praised, The Shifting Landscape, set in the Western District and “an ancient and highly significant indigenous landscape”.

Sandi Wallace https://www.sandiwallace.com/ Sandi has written four rural noir thrillers in her series and won five prizes in Sisters in Crime’s Scarlet Stiletto Awards.