Events

07 Nov 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Join award-winning stand-up comedian and best-selling author Benjamin Stevenson in conversation with Jen Cowley as he discusses his latest mystery, Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret.

About the author

Benjamin is the author of the globally popular Ernest Cunningham Mysteries, including Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, which is currently being adapted into a major HBO TV series.

About the book

My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection.

THE MAGICIAN
THE ASSISTANT
THE EXECUTIVE
THE HYPNOTIST
THE TWIN
THE COUNSELLOR
THE STAGEHAND

My clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there; A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens; And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it's Christmas. If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it. After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn’t it?

Refreshments provided.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the day.

For more information contact Dubbo Library on (02) 6801 4510.