Lainie Anderson at Kanmantoo

Join us as we take Adelaide Author Lainie Anderson to Kanmantoo to share details about her new historical murder mystery

Tickets must be purchased prior to the event.

Join us on this adventure as we take our first author event 'On the Road' to the former pub, the beautiful historic Britannia venue at Kanmantoo

The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen.

The Book

Adelaide, September 1917. Six 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 painting 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 . . .

The Author

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 and London's The Times and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship.

In 2024, Lainie completed a PhD with the University of South Australia, researching the life of Kate Cocks, the inspiration behind The Police Petticoat Mystery series.

Lainie sits on the executive committee of the History Council of South Australia, 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.

Copies of Lainie's book will be available for purchase at the event - CARD ONLY please

Coffee, refreshments included in ticket price. Cake available to purchase from the cafe.