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CLUB TRUE CRIME

THE MUSHROOM TAPES
HELEN GARNER/HOOPER/KRASNOSTIEN
The Mushroom Tapes brings together three
renowned writers of true crime: Helen Garner,
Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein. For this
extraordinary cook, the lone wolves became a
team. Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein tracked
Erin Patterson’s preliminary hearings and trial,
joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley
Law Courts, slept over in Morwell and spent
countless hours in fervent discussion of the
WORDS by Alison Erdos
case and the themes it raises including love,
hate, jealousy, revenge, marriage, money,
mycology and murder.
FICTION
MAD MABEL

SALLY HEPWORTH
YOUNG READER
From the New York Times bestselling
author of The Soulmate and Darling THE LAST BEAR &
Girls comes the story of Mad Mabel. FINDING BEAR
They called it murder. She called it
justice. HANNAH GOLD
‘In 1954, at just fourteen years of age, There are no polar bears left
Mabel Waller became the youngest on Bear Island. At least, that’s
Australian in history to be convicted what April’s father tells her
of murder.’ In 2025, on a quiet when his scientific research
Melbourne Lane, an elderly man is takes them to this remote
found dead by his neighbour, 81-year Arctic outpost for six months.
old Elsie Fitzpatrick. No one suspects But one endless summer
any foul play. Until they discover night, April meets one. He is
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THINKER CRIME/THRILLER
JOHN DUNCAN THE DETECTIVE
Pioneering, prize-winning
neuroscientist who has led MATTHEW REILLY
research programmes at Oxford For 150 years, women have
and Cambridge, with a dazzling been going missing. And all the
new story of human behaviour and investigators who went in
how we find meaning, for fans of search of them - from 1877
Thinking Fast and Slow and Steven to the present day - have
Pinker. Why are we so often in disappeared, too. Now Sam
conflict, arguing with ourselves Speedman, a most unique
and with others, uncertain over private detective, is on the case.
who we are and what we need Brilliant, direct and disarming,
from our lives? Sam is ... different. He’s not
your average private detective.
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