Great Big Book Club with Alexander Thorpe and Robert Edeson

Fremantle Press invites you to celebrate the release of Death Holds the Key by Alexander Thorpe and The Worsener’s Tale by Robert Edeson. Hosted by Subiaco Library, fiction publisher Georgia Richter will join these authors in conversation and launch the next instalments in their respective crime series.
 
The event is free to attend, but bookings are essential. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
 
Copies will be available for purchase on the night courtesy of Dymocks Subiaco. A selection of pizza and light refreshments will be provided.
 
About

Death Holds The Key by Alexander Thorpe 
When loathed landholder Fred O’Donnell is found dead in a locked room with a bullet in his chest, rookie Detective Hartley must seek help from a mysterious wanderer to solve the case. And it’s one where everyone, including O’Donnell’s family, has a motive and a secret to keep.
 
Featuring the mendicant monk from Thorpe’s previous novel, Death Leaves the Station, readers will be drawn into the world of small-town Western Australia in the late 1920s, delighting in the characters as they navigate the strained sensibilities and dark secrets of the past.
 
Full of twists and turns, this seemingly impossible murder mystery is cosy crime writing at its finest.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
 
‘Death Holds the Key is a clever book … I’m really hoping we hear more about these characters in subsequent books.’ Good Reading

The Worsener's Tale by Robert Edeson
In this thrilling mystery novel, centuries-old secrets and modern-day danger collide in a heart-pumping race to find a killer. Intelligence analyst Richard Worse is pulled into the investigation of a murder in the parish where an unspeakable evil occurred over 600 years ago. As Worse and his partner, Emily Misgivingston, delve deeper into the case, he lays bare a shocking secret that will strike at the heart of his own family.
 

About the Authors

Alexander Thorpe
Alexander Thorpe is from Fremantle, Western Australia. He has written advertising copy for pool cleaners and concrete supply companies, taught English in Joseph Stalin’s hometown and almost managed to read half of James Joyce’s Ulysses twice (which is more or less the same as having almost managed to read the whole book). Alex has written for news outlets, travel journals, marketing companies and educational providers. Death Leaves the Station is his first novel. 
Instagram: @alexanderthought

Robert Edeson 
Robert Edeson was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Christ Church Grammar School, the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge. He has been a consultant anaesthetist and researcher, publishing in the neuroscience, biophysical and mathematical literatures.

Further Information

Getting to the event: Subiaco Library has limited parking bays available at the rear of the building including two accessible parking bays. For more information on getting around Subiaco visit the city’s website.

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