Name: Author talk: Chris Hammer
Start: 2024-10-05T13:00:00+10:00
Location: Redland City Council Library - Cleveland

Join us for a lively discussion with Chris Hammer, the acclaimed and bestselling author of the international bestsellers Scrublands and The Seven. We welcome Chris back again as he presents another immersive and emotionally rewarding thriller, The Valley. Books will be available for purchase, and an author signing will follow.

Free event. Bookings required.
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About the book:
The Valley is the latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven.
Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic are back -- as Nell is thrown into her most emotionally fraught investigation yet.
A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary case. Ivan and Nell are soon contending with cowboy lawyers, conmen, bullion thieves and grave robbers.
But it's when Nell discovers the victim is a close blood relative, that the past begins to take on a looming significance.
What did take place in The Valley all those years ago? What was Nell's mother doing there, and what was her connection to troubled young police officer Simmons Burnside? And why do the police hierarchy insist Ivan and Nell stay with the case despite an obvious conflict of interest?
The Valley features a page-turning plot, intriguing characters, and an evocative sense of place — where nothing is ever quite what it seems.
About the author:
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction author. His first book, Scrublands, was an instant #1 bestseller upon publication in 2018. It won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger and was shortlisted for awards in Australia and the United States.
Scrublands has been sold into translation in several foreign languages. Chris's follow-up books — Silver (2019), Trust (2020), Treasure & Dirt (2021), The Tilt (2022) and The Seven (2023) — are also bestsellers and all have been shortlisted for major literary prizes. The Valley is his seventh novel.
Before turning to fiction, Chris was a journalist for more than thirty years. He has written two non-fiction books The River (2010) and The Coast (2012).