Why
are we so fascinated by true crime books? What does that say about our culture and society? And what attracts writers to this grim genre?
The Kill Your Darlings First Book Club, which promotes the debut titles of Australian authors, has chosen Martin McKenzie-Murray’s A Murder Without Motive (Scribe) as its first book of 2016. McKenzie-Murray’s masterful debut is about the 2004 murder of Rebecca Ryle in suburban Perth, and blurs the traditional ‘police procedural’ elements of the true-crime genre with that of memoir.
Martin McKenzie-Murray is The Saturday Paper‘s chief correspondent. He is a former Canberra speechwriter, Age columnist, and adviser to the chief commissioner of Victoria Police.
McKenzie-Murray will join Gideon Haigh for an in-depth discussion of crime-writing and murder most horrid.
Kill Your Darlings First Book Club:
How to host a murder
Thursday March 17
6:15pm
The Wheeler Centre
176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
