Sat, 20 June
|Tathra Hotel & Motel
Recipe for Murder with Duncan McNab
Join us for an author talk with investigative journalist and former detective, Duncan McNab as he discusses his new book ‘RECIPE FOR MURDER The poisonous truth behind Erin Patterson – the mushroom murderer of Leongatha’.
Time & Location
20 June 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Tathra Hotel & Motel, Headland Theatre, Tathra Hotel, 8-12 Bega St, Tathra NSW 2550, Australia
About the event
The definitive account of Erin Patterson and the mushroom murder trial that enthralled the world
Only now is the true callousness of Erin Patterson being revealed. And Duncan McNab reveals all about the case.
These are the facts:
On 29 July 2023 in Leongatha, a small town in rural Victoria, family and friends of local woman Erin Patterson sat down for Saturday lunch. On the menu, Beef Wellington. The next day, four of the guests were hospitalised. Within a week, three of them were dead. When Erin Patterson was arrested and charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder, the case captured media attention around the world. A jury of her peers have now decided that Erin Patterson deliberately poisoned her estranged husband’s parents, aunt and uncle. The lunch was a recipe for murder. Her crocodile tears and feigned illness did not fool the police or the…