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Our Own Chris Hammer!
ANU Meet the Author and the Canberra Writers Festival Presents
Mon
13
Mon 13 Oct 6:00 PM
Cinema | Lowitja O'Donoghue Cultural Centre | Australian National University
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
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
Chris Hammer is a best-selling, award-winning Australian crime fiction author, creator of the Martin Scarsden and the Ivan Lucic/Nell Buchanan series. His eight novels have been praised for their sense of place, their intricate plots, their colourful characters and their emotional depth. His first book Scrublands was an instant bestseller and winner of the UK Crime Writers Association’s New Blood Dagger. Both it and Silver have been adapted for television, with a third series in development. Formerly a journalist for thirty years, his prize-winning non-fiction book The River (2010) has recently been republished. His latest book, Legacy, is published in October 2025.
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
Chris Hammer is a best-selling, award-winning Australian crime fiction author, creator of the Martin Scarsden and the Ivan Lucic/Nell Buchanan series. His eight novels have been praised for their sense of place, their intricate plots, their colourful characters and their emotional depth. His first book Scrublands was an instant bestseller and winner of the UK Crime Writers Association’s New Blood Dagger. Both it and Silver have been adapted for television, with a third series in development. Formerly a journalist for thirty years, his prize-winning non-fiction book The River (2010) has recently been republished. His latest book, Legacy, is published in October 2025.