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Best-selling Canberra author Chris Hammer will be in conversation with Michael Brissenden on his latest crime fiction novel Legacy, in which Martin Scarsden flees an assassination attempt but lands in even more trouble with a deadly family feud leaving him at death's door

Someone is targeting Martin Scarsden. They bomb his book launch and shoot up his hometown. Fleeing for his life, he learns that nowhere is safe, not even the outback. The killers are closing in, and it's all he can do to survive .But who wants to kill him and why? Can he discover their deadly motives and turn the tables?

In a dramatic finale, Martin finds his fate linked to the disgraced ex-wife of a football icon, a fugitive wanted for a decades-old murder, and two nineteenth-century explorers from a legendary expedition.. Legacy is Martin Scarsden's most perilous, challenging and intriguing assignment yet

Award-winning author and СÀ¶ÊÓƵ alumni Chris Hammer‘s books include the internationally bestselling Martin Scarsden series: Scrublands, Silver and Trust, the first two novels now successful television series. Chris's other best-selling series features homicide detectives Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic: Treasure &Dirt/ Opal Country; The Tilt/Dead Man’s Creek; The Seven/Cover The Bones and The Valley/The Broken River.

Michael Brissenden was a journalist with the ABC for 35 years, covering politics, national security issues and spent many years working as a foreign correspondent. He now writes fiction and has published three novels: The List (2017), Dead Letters (2021) Smoke (2024) and the recently published Dust (2025).

Canberra crime fiction reviewer Anna Creer  will give the vote of thanks.

Books will be available for signing from 5.30pm and again after the event.

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