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AACTA Festival: Masters of Crime

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Event

AACTA Festival: Masters of Crime


Time & date

10:00am, 7th February 2026


Location

HOTA, Home of the Arts View map

135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217


Tickets

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Tickets $15 + booking fee.

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About

We binge it. We click it. We can’t look away. Even when times are difficult, we still devour crime stories. But what does our obsession with crime say about us?

Bestselling authors Candice Fox and Michael Robotham join Kathryn Fox for a raw, revealing conversation about what lies beneath the surface: the psychology of violence, the pull of the darker side of human nature, and the blurred lines between truth and imagination.

Discover what drives these storytellers to live inside the minds of killers and victims–and how far they’ll go for authenticity. Is there a fine line between exploring violence and glorifying it? Between empathy and exploitation?

Gripping, funny and unflinchingly honest, Masters of Crime delves into what our darkest stories reveal about who we are–and why, even in troubled times, we still find light in darkness.

Book

Redbelly Crossing
In Candice Fox's latest bestselling crime novel, two cop brothers hunt a killer while trying to outrun their shared past ...
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