Mushroom Tapes Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial

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From three award-winning authors - the book that will outlast the news cycle.

'Categorically a must-read, diary-clearing kind of book...I couldn't stop reading.' READINGS

In July 2023, in the quiet Gippsland town of Leongatha, Erin Patterson-stay-at-home mother and true-crime devotee-invited her husband's devoutly Christian family to lunch. Within days, three of her guests were dead and the fourth was in a coma. They had all been poisoned by death cap mushrooms.

Two years later, Patterson stood trial, accused of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. The court case gripped the nation and fascinated people all over the world.

Among those drawn into the drama were three renowned writers- Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein. Together, they joined the daily media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts and spent long days immersed in the case's sinister and complex themes- love, hate, jealousy, revenge, marriage, money, mycology and murder.

The Mushroom Tapes is a true-crime book like no other-a unique study of Erin Patterson and our collective obsession with her strange and terrible crime.

PRAISE-

'An utterly absorbing exploration of how these writers think- questioning, rationalising and reflecting on female criminality, morality and the ethics of storytelling.' Books+Publishing

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781923058750
Published: November 2025

Number of pages: 256
Width: 154 mm
Height: 233 mm
Depth: 24 mm

Publisher: Text Publishing