Author Chris Hammer in conversation with Nina Campbell

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Join us for a lively chat with author Chris Hammer and Nina Campbell - it's gonna be a literary rollercoaster!

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Salisbury Author Series

The City of Salisbury is excited to launch its inaugural Salisbury Author Series in 2024 featuring a magnificent line up of celebrated local and interstate authors. The opening event will feature Nagi Maehashi of world-renowned RecipeTin Eats.

<h3>Author Chris Hammer in conversation with Nina D Campbell</h3>Salisbury Community HubOctober 25, 2025 at 11:00 AMJohn Harvey Gallery- Ground FloorFreeLight refreshments will be servedBooks available for purchase and signing on the dayA wonderful opportunity to meet leading Australian crime writer Chris Hammer. In Legacy, Martin Scarsden returns for his first investigation in five years to find the tables have been turned. Instead of the hunter, he finds himself the hunted. He flees into the outback, only to find nowhere is safe — but who wants to kill him and why?Martin Scarsden flees an assassination attempt but lands in even more trouble with a deadly family feud leaving him at death's door in Chris Hammer's next blockbuster crime novel.MARTIN SCARSDEN IS ON THE RUN. WILL THE DESERT SAVE HIM – OR BURY HIM?The sound hits them, a shock wave ... glass smashing ... Somewhere a woman screams. A second explosion, Martin looks towards the hall, what's left of it, flames roaring and smoke pouring skywards.Someone is targeting Martin Scarsden. They bomb his book launch and shoot up his hometown. Fleeing for his life, he learns that nowhere is safe, not even the outback. The killers are closing in and it's all he can do to survive.But who wants to kill him and why? Can he discover their deadly motives and turn the tables?In a dramatic finale, he finds his fate linked to the disgraced ex-wife of a football legend, a fugitive wanted for a decades-old murder and two nineteenth century explorers from a legendary expedition.Martin Scarsden's most perilous, challenging and intriguing assignment yet.