In conversation with Shelley Burr

Name: In conversation with Shelley Burr
Start: 2025-04-29T18:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-04-29T19:30:00+10:00
Location: 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3350

Schedule

Tue Apr 29 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3350 | Ballarat, VI

Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches and her grandparents' property in Glenrowan, and on the road between the two. When not writing, Shelley is working to establish a small permaculture farm and is studying sustainable agriculture at the University of New England.
Her debut novel, Wake, was a Top Five bestseller, won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award in 2019, the Australian Book Industry's 2023 Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Australian Crime Writers Association's 2023 Ned Kelly Award for best debut crime fiction.
About her Book - 'Vanish'People go to the isolated Karpathy farm looking for a new life… and are never seen again. A chilling thriller from the award-winning and bestselling author of Australian noir, Shelley Burr.
Lane Holland's crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. With his parole hearing approaching, he faces the grim reality that an ex-con can never work as a private eye. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt him: the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago.
Never one to follow the rules, Lane finds a lead - a mysterious farm community led by the enigmatic Samuel Karpathy. His farm attracts lost souls. People who want a more meaningful life. People who are hiding from their pasts. People with nowhere else to go.
But those who go to the farm seem to vanish without a trace.
Is it a commune? Is it a cult? Is it something even more dangerous? Lane goes undercover at the farm to find its dark secret - but could he too find himself intoxicated by the prospect of a new life on the land?
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