Monday 4th May 2026
(For adults)
Join us to hear award-winning author Dave Warner chat about his latest whodunnit, Sound Mind Dead Body (Fremantle Press). Dave will also perform music inspired by themes from his books, joined by guitarist Tony Durant. It is an event not to be missed!
Author of nine novels and six non-fiction books, Dave's first novel, City of Light, won the WA Premier’s Book Award for Fiction, and Before it Breaks (2015) received the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime fiction. Dave Warner first came to national prominence with his gold album Mug’s Game, and his band Dave Warner’s from the Suburbs. In 2017 he released his tenth album, When. He has been named a Western Australian State Living Treasure and has been inducted into the WAMi Rock’n’Roll of Renown.
About the book: Devon, 1929. Members of the Pedhurst and de Reve families gather to hear unpopular matriarch Julia Pedhurst (née de Reve) read from her late husband’s will. One of the houseguests is fighter pilot Fred Willets, now an inspector in the Kalgoorlie Gold Squad, who has come to the UK as a beneficiary of the will. When Julia dies before the reading, and another death follows soon after, everybody in the manor house is a possible suspect. It is up to Willets, assisted by the bright young pharmacist Prudence Meadows, to crack this whodunnit.
Books will be available for purchase on the day courtesy of Dymocks Midland Gate.
Bookings are essential via Humanitix for this free event. Light refreshments will be available. You are encouraged to bring your own cup for tea/coffee or water.
Please let us know if you have any access requirements.