Author Talk with Lainie Anderson

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Join us for an engaging chat with Lainie Anderson on her latest release Murder on North Terrace.

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Adelaide, September 1917Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back walking the beat.The city is unsettled. Winter won’t leave. Soldiers are returning from the Front with broken bodies and troubled souls. And now a powerful board governor has been found dead in the Art Gallery – dumped beneath a scandalous nude portrait that has attracted both pious outrage and record crowds.When Ethel receives an anonymous tip, she’s elated at being seconded to the Detective Branch. The murder goes to the heart of Adelaide’s elite, where this society girl is in her element.Miss Cocks is left grappling with six o’clock swills, shadows in alleyways and a brutal assault on a schoolgirl. She needs Ethel to catch her killer, and quickly.Alas, murder in Adelaide is never a simple affair…Inspired by the true story of Australia’s pioneering policewoman, Kate Cocks.Free Event.Bookings are essential.<h2>ARTIST BIO: Lainie Anderson</h2>Lainie Anderson is a writer whose 35-year career in journalism and public relations includes 17 years as a columnist with Adelaide's Sunday Mail, as well as stints at Melbourne's Herald Sun, London's The Times and the South Australian Tourism Commission.After being awarded a Churchill Fellowship, Lainie published her debut novel Long Flight Home in 2019. In 2024, Lainie completed a PhD with the University of South Australia, researching the life of Kate Cocks, the inspiration behind The Death of Dora Black and Murder on North Terrace. Lainie sits on the executive committee of the History Council of South Australia and the selection committee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, and is an ambassador with the Hutt Street Centre - helping people out of homelessness. She is a History Guardian for the History Trust of South Australia and was announced as the 2023 Emerging Historian of the Year by the History Council of South Australia.She lives in the Adelaide Hills with her husband Max. Murder on North Terrace is the second novel in the Petticoat Police Mystery series, following The Death of Dora Black, which was longlisted in the 2025 Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction.<h2></h2>

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