Our heist mastermind…er…Festival Director, Dr L.J.M. Owen founded the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival as a criminally good celebration of literature and literacy in southern Tasmania.

With degrees in archaeology, forensic science and librarianship, L.J. is also an author. She was inspired to write the Dr Pimms series by the neglected women's stories she discovered between the cracks of popular archaeology. Three books in this series have been published by Echo Publishing.

L.J.'s new novel, The Great Divide, introduces a new story world and characters. Darker than Dr Pimms, The Great Divide is atmospheric Australian rural crime fiction. The Great Divide will be launched on the Saturday afternoon of the festival.

L.J.’S EVENTS

L.J. will launch her latest novel, THE GREAT DIVIDE, at 5pm on Sat 2 Nov. For program information, click here.

L.J. will attend NOIR AT THE BAR and wrote Curse of the Sphinx, the festival’s MURDER MYSTERY PARTY.

L.J.’S PANEL SESSIONS

9.45 am, Sat 2 Nov, MEANS

4 pm, Sat 2 Nov, CSI: TASMANIA

9.45 am, Sun 3 Nov, THE LADY VANISHES

12 pm, Sun 3 Nov, MARPLE VS. HOLMES

1.45 pm, Sun 3 Nov, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

MORE…

For more on L.J., please see this ArtsHub article introducing our director.

For more on Dr Pimms, click here.

For more on The Great Divide:

- read the blurb of The Great Divide here;

- read an excerpt from The Great Divide;

- if you’re a NetGalley reviewer, read and review The Great Divide now.