Who knew “cosy crime” was even a genre, let alone a fertile field of bestsellers?
Amanda Hampson, author of 2023 runaway The Tea Ladies, which spent 12 weeks in the Australian fiction top 10, certainly does, and she’ll be talking about her highly anticipated new Tea Ladies mystery, The Cryptic Clue, at the Cooroy Library on Friday.
It’s Sydney 1966 and the tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, are worried about their jobs with the advent of a machine that makes tea and coffee. While they fret about their futures, Irene receives a mysterious coded message from her safe-cracker husband in jail. Could this lead them to a treasure from his final heist?
Amanda Hampson grew up in rural New Zealand. She has lived in London and Sydney, and now lives in Melbourne. Writing professionally for more than 20 years, she is the author of The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa, Sixty Summers, Lovebirds, and last year The Tea Ladies, in which she perfected her cosy combination of crime and nostalgia, finally making her an “overnight success” in her 60s!
A lively and entertaining speaker, Amanda will be in conversation at Cooroy Library between 1.30pm and 2.30pm on Friday 19 April. This is a free event but bookings are required.
Phone: 0753296555
