Vikki Petraitis interrogates three true crime authors – Robin Bowles, Cheryl Critchley and Helen McGrath – about some famous Australian true crime cases they’ve investigated, from Jaidyn Leskie, Jennifer Tanner and Phoebe Handsjuk to Alison Baden-Clay and Jill Meagher.

Robin Bowles is known as Australia’s 'True Crime Queen’, and since 1998 has written 11 best-selling true crime books and two works of fiction, based on her ‘escapades’ as a licenced private investigator. www.robinbowles.com.au

Journalist Cheryl Critchley teamed with psychologist Dr Helen McGrath to write Why Did They Do It?, which was highly commended in Sisters in Crime’s 2016 Davitt Awards. www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781743533178

Vikki Petraitis is a true-crime author who has written about serial killers, gangland murders, detectives, and police dogs. www.vikkipetraitis.com/

Presented by Sisters in Crime, in partnership with the Port Phillip Library Service