Sunday 15th June: 11.30am Chris Hammer . Lunch not included but can be book separately. Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction novelist, author of the internationally bestselling Martin Scarsden series: Scrublands, Silver & Trust. Scrublands was named the Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Year 2019 & won the prestigious UK Crime Writers Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award. Scrublands was adapted for TV and aired in the UK on in 2023. A second series based on Silver will be shown later this year. Chriss current award-winning series features homicide detectives Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic: Opal Country; Dead Mans Creek; Cover The Bones, & now The Broken River. Before turning to fiction, Chris was a journalist for more than 30 years. Chris has written two non-fiction books The River The Coast . He lives in Canberra. In his latest book "The Broken River" Lucic and Buchanan return in this masterclass of unmissable thrills and jaw-dropping twists. Three murders. A secret buried in gold. A body has been discovered on the riverbanks of The Valley, a remote community in the hills of New South Wales. The victim is Wolfgang Burnside, deputy mayor -a champion of change or local schemer, depending on who you ask. He had been working on plans to take the Valley off-grid with hydro-power - until he was poisoned.