Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

Australian Mystery Writers’ Festival, 50th Anniversary Program

The AMWF extends a very special welcome to our guest of honor: Henry McTavish, globally bestselling author of the Detective Morbund series. “Unputdownable and unbeatable: McTavish is peerless.” New York Times

Ernest Cunningham: Ernest Cunningham’s memoir Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone took us deep into the story of one of Australia’s most notorious serial killers, the Black Tongue. He is currently working on a novel.

Lisa Fulton: Lisa Fulton’s bestselling debut novel The Balance of Justice shook the foundations of crime fiction on release twenty-one years ago with its white-hot rage and brutal truth, and was long-listed for the Justice in Fiction Award, Women’s Prize, 2003. She is currently working on her long-awaited second novel.

S. F. Majors: S. F. Majors’s gripping thrillers have captivated the world with their psychological complexity and hair-raising twists and turns. Her books include the New York Times bestselling Twists and Turns, which has been optioned for film by Netflix. Her young adult thriller My Lab Partner Is a Serial Killer is being adapted into a Broadway musical. She grew up rereading the only three books in her tiny town’s school library, and now lives in the Blue Mountains with her partner and two dogs.

Alan Royce: Alan Royce is the author of the Dr. Jane Black series, comprising eleven novels and three novellas. A former forensic pathologist before being catapulted to crime-writing stardom, he brings his expertise in morgues and autopsies to the page. “Gritty, real and uncompromising. One to watch.” Time, 2011

Wolfgang: Winner, Commonwealth Book Prize 2012; short-listed, Bookseller’s Favorites Award 2012; short-listed, Goodreads Readers’ Choice, Literary Fiction, 2012; short-listed, Best of Amazon 2012; short-listed, Justice in Fiction Award, Women’s Prize (special exemption granted), 2003; long-listed, Miles Franklin Award 2015; long-listed, Independent Library Choice Awards 2015; Archibald Packing Room Prize subject 2018; Honorary Mention: International Poetry Prize, Oceanic Region, 2020. His next project is an interactive art project titled The Death of Literature.