Books@Stones event: Bad Neighbours by Joanna Jenkins

Join us on Tuesday 25 August for a special author event with Joanna Jenkins and Poppy Gee discussing Joanna's latest crime mystery novel, Bad Neighbours

From the bestselling author of How to Kill a Client and The Bluff comes a page-turning thriller of fraud and lies, murder and greed.

Ruth Dawson finds her ideal living space in an Art Deco building in Potts Point, The Lumen. A twenty-minute walk from her office in the city, the apartment boasts parquetry flooring, a wall of books and Harbour Bridge views from the sofa.

It's perfect until Ben, the homeless guy, dies under the corrugated iron lean-to in the garden where he lived. 

The residents of The Lumen do little to hide their relief. They can cease their half-hearted attempts to find an acceptable solution to 'the Ben problem', and return to more important issues.

They're not happy when Ruth brings in a detective. But she's certain Ben was poisoned, and one of her neighbours knows it too.

'Come for the murder, stay for the almost-too-close-to-the-bone social satire. I loved it, but don't tell my neighbours I said so.' JACK HEATH, author of Kill Your Husbands

Joanna Jenkins grew up on a small farm in country Queensland. After graduating from the University of Queensland with degrees in English Literature and Law, she practised as a solicitor, including for many years as a partner of an international law firm. She now writes full-time. Married with three sons, Joanna lives in Brisbane. Her debut novel, How to Kill a Client, was published in 2023. The Bluff, her second novel, was published in 2025.

Find out more about Joanna at www.joannajenkins.net

Poppy Gee is a Brisbane based writer with two internationally published crime novels: Bay of Fires and Vanishing Falls, both set in Tasmania where she grew up. She has worked as a journalist, book reviewer and subeditor for the Courier Mail; chief-sub editor of Girlfriend magazine; and has taught journalism at QUT. Poppy has a Masters in Creative Writing from UQ. She currently leads creative writing workshops for the Queensland Writers Centre and is an active member of Sisters in Crime, hosting Brisbane's Wine & Crime Literary Dinners.

Find out more about Poppy at www.poppygee.com

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