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Free event. Bookings required.Discover award-winning crime fiction author Michael Robotham’s latest book as part of our Star-Studded Spring showcase! Get insight into this astonishing and emotional epic while enjoying a riveting morning chat and the opportunity of an author signing afterwards.
About the book:
'Tell Me Something True' is a mystery, a coming-of-age tale and a love story wrapped into one, set against the simmering tensions of a small Australian town.
Small towns are quick to anger and slow to forgive, but Arlo Hackett doesn't expect mercy when he emerges from a twelve-year prison sentence and makes his way back to Yulara, a waypoint on Australia's Great Southern Road. The last time Arlo was home, his brother Luke was charged with a terrible crime and Arlo was found guilty by association. His return to the former goldrush town is like cracking open a time capsule full of hatred and violence, along with memories of the people he loved -- the ones he couldn't save.
Yulara wants Arlo gone, or worse, but every insult and humiliation pushes him to confront what really happened all those years ago. The truth will shock you, surprise you, and break your heart.
About the author:
Before becoming a novelist, Michael Robotham was a feature writer and investigative reporter working in Britain, Australia and America, and with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes. 2024 marked the 20-year anniversary of the publication of his debut thriller, 'The Suspect', which introduced clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin, sold more than a million copies around the world and is now a major TV series starring Aidan Turner on ABC TV. Michael's standalone thriller The Secrets She Keeps was adapted for TV by Network 10 and the BBC.
Michael is the only Australian to twice win the UK's prestigious Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel, for Life or Death and Good Girl, Bad Girl.
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Cleveland Library, Cnr Bloomfield and Middle Streets,Cleveland,QLD,Australia
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