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In Conversation with J.P. Pomare

September 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

$10

17 Years Later: Who really killed the Primrose family

by J.P. Pomare.

The unputdownable new bestseller by multi-award-winning author J. P. Pomare.

Who killed the wealthy Primrose family?

The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation.
Their young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, was swiftly charged with murder and brought to justice. But the brutal crime scarred the idyllic town of Cambridge forever. 

Seventeen years later, true-crime podcaster Sloane Abbott tracks down prison psychologist TK Phillips. Once a fierce campaigner for an appeal, TK now lives a quiet life with Bill’s case firmly in his past. As Sloane lures a reluctant TK back into the fight, evidence emerges that casts new light on the Primroses – and who might have wanted them dead.

While the list of suspects grows, Bill’s innocence is still far from assured. What will it cost Sloane and TK to uncover the truth?

‘There’s a reason Pomare is called king of the twist’ Herald Sun

17 Years Later: Who really killed the Primrose family | J.P. Pomare

About the Author

J.P. Pomare is an award-winning author whose debut novel, Call Me Evie (2018), won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. In the Clearing (2019) was made into a Disney+ Original Series, The Clearing, while Tell Me Lies (2020) 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 Last Guests (2021) was critically acclaimed, as was his fifth book, the top-ten bestseller The Wrong Woman (2022). Home Before Night is his sixth novel and was first published as an Audible Original. J.P. Pomare was born in New Zealand and resides in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.

Josh Pomare, Author

Josh will be In-Conversation with

Local ABC Journalist – Gavin McGrath

After more than a decade and a half working the beat as a newspaper reporter, Gavin McGrath brings an eye (and an ear) for what’s newsworthy, interesting and just plain unusual in regional Australia to ABC Local Radio.

Growing up in regional South Australia and Victoria, Gavin was a relative latecomer to news journalism (he actually wanted to be a fighter pilot) but studied communications at Deakin University in Warrnambool and has since worked for the Herald Sun (five years) and The Courier in Ballarat (eight years). Prior to becoming a staff reporter, he worked within the motoring industry and as a motorsport scribe at racetracks around Australia.

In his time as a writer Gavin has taken a keen interest in local sport, rural and farming matters, and even returned to his first love, driving and reviewing cars, but hasn’t been afraid to tackle everything from politics to theatre (including a failed attempt to become Ballarat’s Phantom of the Opera. Sadly he is a terrible singer).

Gavin takes a look at local life in Ballarat and South West Victoria each weekday between 10 and 11am, and would love to hear your stories.

Gavin McGrath

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$10 per person plus booking fee & gst includes light refreshment.


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This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.

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