Sisters in Crime 'Desperate Times, Desperate Measures' event

Homelessness, financial crises, bad decisions, and family secrets can make for desperate times requiring desperate measures – even murder. Authors Michelle Prak, Samantha Byres, and Anna Snoekstra will chew over the issues with fellow author, Ilsa Evans.

From Samantha Byres comes Dead Ends, her debut sexy, blackly comic mystery, where the impossibility of closure and a desire to fix the past collide. All-round chaos merchant Nell Jenkins has returned to Aotearoa/New Zealand to care for her ailing mother. She is reeling from the end of a relationship that is now being combed over by HR. A once-famous TV psychic, Petronella Bush, insinuates herself into Nell’s life, promising the family closure on the haunting deaths of two girls. Driven by her lust for Katya, an empty bank account and the need to come to terms with these two life-defining deaths, Nell is drawn deeper into Petronella’s charismatic web . . .

Samantha is a writer from Whanganui, Aotearoa, now living in Naarm/Melbourne. She attended the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, and her work appears in Turbine, JAAM, Sport, and Out Here: An anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa.

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