Murder, Drugs & Voyeurism

Thu 5 May 2022

J.P. Pomare + Dinuka McKenzie + Ron Serdiuk

Maiwar Green Marquee, State Library

Main Festival

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Crime novels thrill and fascinate with a litany of transgressive acts, and we devour them for that brush against the wild side. Our panelists analyse the enduring appeal of crime stories and the dark deeds committed by their heroes and villains.

Panel: J.P. Pomare, Dinuka McKenzie
Chair: Ron Serdiuk

#Artists

J.P. Pomare

J.P. Pomare is an award-winning writer whose work has been widely published. His debut novel, Call Me Evie, was critically acclaimed and won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. Pomare's novels In The Clearing and The Last Guests were critically acclaimed bestsellers, while his novel Tell Me Lies was a #1 Audible bestseller and was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. The Wrong Woman is his fifth book.

He was born in New Zealand and resides in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.

Dinuka McKenzie

Dinuka McKenzie is an Australian writer. Her debut crime fiction manuscript The Torrent won the 2020 Banjo Prize for fiction and was published by HarperCollins Australia in February 2022. Her then unpublished manuscript Taken was longlisted for the 2020 Richell Prize and is out in 2023. Dinuka’s short fiction Skin Deep appears in the Dark Deeds Down Under crime and thriller anthology published by Clan Destine Press in 2022. When not writing, Dinuka can be found behind the scenes at the Writers’ Unleashed Festival. She lives in Southern Sydney on Dharawal Country with her husband, two kids and their pet chicken.