When faced with the need for a new book to read… 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Rightio, so among many other things, Good Reading Magazine and I are restarting our fun 'GReat Debate' author features that we ran semi-regularly in 2021-2022. Two terrific authors 'facing off' as they share different approaches to storytelling. What future topics would you like to see?

And then there were two! #DarkDeedsDownUnder2 is out now. Huge thanks to our 40 amazing contributors across our first two volumes; a cool array of Aussie & Kiwi storytellers (crime novelists, genre-blenders, short story specialists, etc). Wouldn't they look great on your shelf?!

Some heros you try not to see #faceless

If your ears are burning Tama Magpie it’s because we’re talking about you at my book group tonight…

Such a fun night - thank you to my panelists!

Perfect research book, crime writer buddies

Need my sleuthing mug today

Face it, you know you want Faceless… 🇺🇸🇨🇦

Kia ora USA & Canadian readers - look what’s on sale! Be in!

Marion Todd Vanda Symon

Two weeks ago I was still in New Zealand and reading this *slightly* mischievous headline in the wonderful Cook Islands News

Couldn’t decide on a colour, so I went with all the colours!

It felt like an🍊kind of a day

Forensic Tip of the Day: The next of kin do not get a say in whether the coroner or medical examiner conducts a forensic autopsy. For clinical autopsies, however, the NOK can request, deny, or limit the scope of the autopsy. #SymonSays #4n6TotD

In 1929, Arthur Upfield suggested a method of body disposal in his then unpublished book ‘The Sands of Windee’, in which he described a foolproof way to dispose of a body and thus commit the perfect murder

In the 1930s, John Rowles decided to try it himself after reading the…

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Black tops + camera flashes = unexpected transparency! 📸 😲
Black tops turn see-through under flash photography revealing your underwear! Combat the effect by wearing a dark undergarment to avoid this wardrobe malfunction.
#FlashProofFashion

Forensic Tip of the Day: The cause of death is the event that led to death. The mechanism of death is the literal biological failure that resulted in death. For example, the cause of death is the gunshot wound, while the mechanism of death is bleeding out. #SymonSays #4n6TotD

Ockham NZ Book Awards Catherine Chidgey Nikki Crutchley Waipā District Council HarperCollins Aus Nadine Rubin Nathan Nicky Webber - Author Te Herenga Waka University Press Europa Editions UK Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors On Fri 5 April, we're back in NZ's City of Literature for another MITL fiesta, where Kiwi Queen of Crime and #TraitorsNZ star Vanda Symon chairs fellow Otago authors Kura Carpenter, debutant Paul Knowles & past Ngaios winner Liam McIlvanney dunedinlibraries.govt.nz/article/_recac… #yeahnoir

Forensic Tip of the Day: A bog body is a preserved corpse w/minimal decomposition due to a biochemical reaction of bodies found in bogs (it's similar to pickling). This preservation is VERY different than (although often confused with) natural mummification. #SymonSays #4n6TotD