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Emma Loffhagen

Erin Patterson mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner

Illustration of Erin Patterson
Courtroom sketch artist Anita Lester’s illustration of Erin Patterson during the trial. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian

Helen Garner, one of Australia’s most acclaimed authors, is set to publish a new book in November about the Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial.

The book follows the story of Patterson, an Australian woman convicted in July of murdering three of her former in-laws and attempting to murder a fourth by serving them a beef wellington contaminated with death cap mushrooms in 2023. The case, which played out in an Australian court earlier this year, attracted global attention.

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