Author In-Conversation: Amanda Hampson

Join us for a fun evening as we talk tea, fashion and cosy crime with bestselling author, Amanda Hampson.

About the book:

A model vanishes. A man is murdered. And the Tea Ladies are back on the case.

Sydney, 1968. In a shadowy city lane, a young man is shot dead. His glamorous fiancée, a rising fashion model, disappears without a trace. The police think they’ve found their culprit.

But Hazel, Betty, Irene and Merl know better.

The Model Murder is the fourth irresistible instalment in bestselling author Amanda Hampson’s much-loved Tea Ladies cosy crime series. A smart, warm-hearted and sharply observed crime novel that proves sleuthing isn’t just for hard-boiled detectives. Set against the fizz and tension of late-1960s Sydney, The Model Murder plunges into a world of fashion houses, theatre groups, back-street bookmakers and dangerous secrets. When the Tea Ladies begin quietly asking questions about the laneway murder, they uncover a tangled web of lies involving missing money, organised crime — and a truth someone is willing to kill to keep buried.

About the author:

Melbourne-based author, Amanda Hampson has been writing professionally for more than thirty years and is the best-selling author of ten novels: The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa, Sixty Summers, Lovebirds, The Tea Ladies, The Cryptic Clue, The Deadly Dispute and her forthcoming release The Model Murder.

A runaway bestseller, The Tea Ladies won the 2024 Danger Awards for Best Crime Fiction and was Shortlisted for 2024 Davitt Awards - Best Adult Crime & 2024 Ned Kelly Awards – Best Fiction.

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