The Ruin/The Killing of Louisa
Irish Crime and Australian Crime
Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland
Action/Crime / True Crime
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
The Ruin: Cormac Reily is about to reopen the case that took him twenty years to forget. Secrets of the past expose the crimes of the present.
The Killing of Louisa: Louisa Collins was hung in NSW in 1889. She was tried four times for the alleged murders of her two husbands.
Chair: Professor Kay Saunders
#Artists
Dervla McTiernan
Dervla McTiernan was born in Ireland and now lives with her family in Western Australia, where she works for the Mental Health Commission.
The Rúin is her first novel.
Janet Lee
Janet Lee’s manuscript The Killing of Louisa, won the Emerging Queensland Writer category in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards. She has a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Janet lives in south east Queensland on a property she shares with some very spoilt chickens and her wonderful noisy family.
Photography by Bambi.
#Moderator
Prof Kay Saunders
Professor Kay Saunders AM is a widely published author and historian.
