Veteran screenwriter Greg Haddrick to release ‘The Mushroom Murders’ book

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Haddrick’s release will join on bookshelves other releases including ‘Recipe for Murder’ by former NSW detective and private investigator Duncan McNab, due out October 14, and ‘The Mushroom Tapes’ by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein on November 11.

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00:00My name is Greg Hadrick and I have a book coming out very soon called The Mushroom Murders which

00:07is about the trial of Erin Patterson. Tell us why people are so fascinated with this case.

00:11I think part of what's fascinating is that the people who always ask that question are the people

00:16who are most fascinated about the case and they're wondering why they're fascinated. I believe like

00:22many people it is so unusual to have a murderer like Erin. I think that's why people find it

00:29endlessly fascinating is to try and understand someone who looks like them who is a mum with

00:37two kids living a quiet life in a rural town. No criminal background whatsoever in any of

00:46you know the background or family and yet she murdered three people and I think it's the

00:54disconnect between the life she led and the family life that she embraced and then the

00:59actions she did and that the gap between those two is so big compared to what most people

01:08understand and would conceive murderers to be and I think that's why there's this ongoing

01:13fascination with this case.

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