Martin McKenzie-Murray at The Wheeler Centre

Why are we so fascinated by true crime books? What does that say about our culture and society? And what attracts writers to this grim genre?

The Kill Your Darlings First Book Club, which promotes the debut titles of Australian authors, has chosen Martin McKenzie-Murray’s A Murder Without Motive as its first book of 2016. McKenzie-Murray’s masterful debut is about the 2004 murder of Rebecca Ryle in suburban Perth, and blurs the traditional ‘police procedural’ elements of the true-crime genre, with that of memoir.

McKenzie-Murray will join Gideon Haigh for an in-depth discussion of crime-writing and our fascination with it.

A Murder Without Motive

Martin McKenzie-Murray

RRP: $27.99 Pub date: 27 Jan 2016 Category: True crime Cover view

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