Join us for a fascinating chat with bestselling author Margaret Hickey.

An Ill Wind is the exciting new rural crime novel from the author of Broken Bay and The Creeper.

When a massive wind farm is erected on its outskirts, a small Victorian town is ripped apart in the deadliest of ways. High on a hill above the small Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin. Except one is now deadly still – a body hanging from its huge white blade.

Detective Sergeants Belinda Burney and Will Lovell are shocked to discover the dead man is Geordie Pritchard, a rich local philanthropist and owner of the wind energy farm. Suicide at first seems the likely explanation, until Geordie’s widow Lucinda insists her husband was murdered – and she has the death threats to prove it.

In short, Pritchard was both saint and sinner. But who in the small community hated him enough to want him dead?

Books will be available for purchase on the day courtesy of Dymocks Midland Gate.

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About the author: Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from north eastern East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. She is the author of the bestsellers Cutters End, Stone Town, Broken Bay and The Creeper. Her collection of short stories, Rural Dreams, about country life was released in January 2025.