Sisters in Crime presents Lethal Practice: Murder + Mayhem + Malice in the Medical World on Friday, July 28, at 8pm at the Rising Sun Hotel, 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne.
Medicine is supposed to be about healing and helping but the medical world can also offer many opportunities to do harm … even kill.
Guest authors Anne Buist (Locked Ward), Jacinta Halloran (Dissection) and Sue White (Cut), , are all medical doctors who know the issues firsthand and will tell all to host Toni Jordan.
Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. She has 30 years clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry, including perinatal medicolegal work (cases of infanticide, kidnapping, murder, and abuse) for Protective Services, Children’s and Criminal courts.
She is the author of four crime novels with tart noir heroine, psychiatrist Natalie King, Medea’s Curse (shortlisted for the Davitt as debut and overall), Dangerous to Know, This I Would Kill For, and Locked Ward (released January) and a stand-alone rural thriller set around a postnatal depression group, The Long Shadow. She has been married to Graeme Simsion for 30 years, and with him has written feel-good mid-age-finding-yourself novel on the Camino and Chemin dÁssie/Via Francigena: Two Steps Forward, and Two Steps Onward which were published in 14 countries. Their joint book set in a health facility, Out of the Blue, will be released next March.
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• Cheryl Threadgold

Pictured: Medical professional and author Anne Buist.