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Meet the Author | Olivia Wearne & Elizabeth Coleman
28/04/2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$10
The Woman Who Knew Too Little by Olivia Wearne
A Routine Infidelity by Elizabeth Coleman
THE similarities keep coming for two local authors who discovered they recently published their latest works a couple of days apart from each other.
Now Elizabeth Coleman and Olivia Wearne have become fast friends following the release of their second novels.
Both crime fiction books, Coleman’s is titled A Routine Infidelity and Wearne’s The Woman Who Knew Too Little.
“I got an email from my agent saying there was another author in Ballarat whose story was very similar to mine and asked if I wanted to meet her,” Coleman said.
“We met for coffee and she said ‘my second book’s coming out’ and I said my second book’s coming out!
“Her book has a female detective. My book has a female detective. It was uncanny, so we thought we would join forces and get ourselves out there through these remarkable coincidences.”
Both screenwriters by trade, Wearne moved to Ballarat and started writing professionally 15 years ago while Coleman has been crafting words for 30 years and relocated to the region in the last half-decade.
Coleman said the pair’s shared screenwriting influences is a prominent factor in both their styles.
“Another similarity we share is that our screen experiences have really helped us with story structure,” she said.
“Both our stories kind of move along quickly because we’ve had to work to commercial breaks and things like that.”
Coleman said it’s important for Australian creatives to support each other.
“It’s such a small industry here, anything creative,” she said.” We’re competing with enormous overseas giants.
“It’s very important we all support each other and lift each other up.”
Source: Ballarat Times : 8 March 2023 by Tim Bottams.
https://timesnewsgroup.com.au/ballarat/print-editions/full-digital-edition-3-march-2/
1948. An unidentified dead man is found on Somerton Beach, Adelaide. Officer Kitty Wheeler yearns to work the case – but the city’s women police are typically assigned to more domestic matters. A wryly funny, sharply observed novel about one of Australia’s great mysteries, and the life choices available to mid-century women.
December, 1948. Officer Kitty Wheeler is a member of the Women Police, responsible for ‘upholding the moral virtue’ of Adelaide’s at times unruly and amorous citizens. Patrolling Somerton beach one night, Kitty and her partner spot a man leaning against the sea wall, apparently drunk. It’s late, they’re tired, and they leave him to sleep it off …
The man is dead, his identity unknown, and Kitty has missed a career-making opportunity. In the following months, the case of the Somerton Man grips first Adelaide, then Australia, as bizarre clues point towards international espionage, Eastern mysticism or salacious scandal. Kitty, preoccupied with the case, joins the investigation wherever she can, although the men are firmly in charge. Meanwhile, she must decide whether she wants husband and family, or a career – in 1940s Australia, she can’t have both. Her boyfriend Peter wants to pop the question, but Kitty is keener on solving the case …
Olivia Wearne has threaded Kitty’s story into the real-life 1940s mystery of the Somerton Man. This intriguing, sharply observed and wholly engaging novel explores the life and crimes of a city and its people, few of whom are without their secrets.
About the Author
Olivia Wearne began her writing career as a screenwriter and has several film credits to her name. After receiving a Masters in creative writing she went on to write The Grand Tour, which was published in 2020. Born and raised in Melbourne, Olivia now resides in Ballarat, Victoria, with her filmmaker husband and two sons.
A delightfully sharp and clever murder mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club.
Synopsis:
Private investigator Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol deals in the cheating husbands and missing chihuahuas of Melbourne, but yearns for the heart-stopping excitement of real crime. When
When Ted discovers her sister Bob has fallen prey to an internet catfishing scam, she sets out with her beloved miniature schnauzer and shrewd sidekick, Miss Marple, to catch the swindler. Meanwhile, when conducting routine surveillance on a couple suspected of having an affair, she uncovers a plot to embezzle millions.
As Bob’s case takes a series of bizarre twists and turns and the embezzlement escalates into murder, Ted finds her own life in peril. Will she crack her first criminal case before it’s too late?
Praise for A Routine Infidelity:
Clever plotting, memorable characters – a delight!
Kerry Greenwood
Author of the Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries
With Miss Marple as your sidekick how can you lose? I loved every minute with PI Ted, her friends, family, associates… A Routine Infidelity makes the beginning of an excellent series!
RWR McDonald, author of The Nancys
High drama, snappy dialogue and sensational plot twists… This is your regular, first-class page turner.
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
A Routine Infidelity is the first in a new series that is perfect for fans of classic crime dramas.
Readings
Elizabeth Coleman Biography:
Elizabeth Coleman is a successful screenwriter who has written for many beloved Australian dramas, including every season of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries. She is also the author of the hit play Secret Bridesmaids’ Business and co-creator of the popular ABC drama Bed of Roses.
Cost $10 per person includes gst & light refreshments
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