Senior Crown Prosecutor for NSW Mark Tedeschi AM QC will give a talk at Hawkesbury Library on Tuesday, September 5.
The talk will promote his new novel ‘Murder at Myall Creek’, about the most sensational trial of mass murder in Australia’s legal history.
Mr Tedeschi will tell the true story of the 11 convicts and former convicts who were put on trial for the murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children in 1838 at Myall Creek in the New England district of NSW.
The book follows prosecutor John Hubert Plunkett’s battle to achieve justice for the murdered families.
Plunkett was surrounded by controversy as his ideologies set him him apart from mainstream colonial society.
This is Mr Tedeschi’s third novel. His first, ‘Eugenia’, was shortlisted in 2013 in the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Awards.
His second novel, ‘Kidnapped’, was also shortlisted for a Ned Kelly award.
The talk is free, from 6pm to 7.30pm, with refreshments provided from 6pm.
Bookings are essential via www.hawkesburylibrary.eventbrite.com or call 4560 4460. The library is at 300 George Street, Windsor.
