Event Description
- This is a free online event open to the Vision Australia community, hosted on Friday, February 12 at 12.30pm AEDT.
- Join Maureen O’Reilly as she spends an hour speaking with Rachael and Mercedes, discussing romance, crime and their first co-written cromance.
Vision Australia Library are thrilled to announce our first event for 2027 will feature two fabulous authors, who have joined forces for a genre-bending crime-romance book. The perfect novel to feature in the lead up to Library Lover’s Day, perhaps better known as Valentine’s Day.
Due for release on January 26, The Number One Insta Detectives Agency is the first instalment in a new crime-romance series by bestselling Australian authors Rachael Johns and Mercedes Mercier.The novel features a team of friends bonded over their love / hate relationship with the dating world, who are fast creating a reputation for cracking the toughest digital dating crimes. As the novel progresses, the girls find themselves emersed in a chilling criminal case, the tension builds as their investigations lead them to a maximum-security prison.
About our authors
With more than thirty novels to her name, Rachael Johns is described as “one of Australia’s most beloved authors of warm, witty women’s fiction, heartfelt rural romance and feel-good romantic comedies”. ‘The Number One Insta Detectives Agency’ is Rachael’s first co-written cromance (crime-romance) novel.
Mercedes Mercier writes ‘just-one-more-page’ crime with twisting plots and relatable characters. Having worked in the criminal justice system for over a decade, Mercedes’ writing draws on her unique insight into the world of crime and offenders, bringing a genuine authenticity to her characters and plots.
