Bazzani talks murder mystery at BMI

WRITER Rozzi Bazzani is headed to Ballarat to share insights into her new book One Night, a murder mystery based in suburban Melbourne.

Set for next Wednesday 1 October at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, the In Conversation event will feature Bazzani talking about the creation of the story.

In it, Detective Sergeant Bec Harpin answers a call for help from her friend, barrister Carolyn Moorhouse, and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of an investigation that threatens to derail her career.

Not only does Harpin have to decide how far she’ll go for a friend, she must also determine if her friend is guilty of a crime.

Ahead of the In Conversation event, Bazzani said she’s very happy readers will “finally get a chance to read about the characters I have been sharing my life with for the last year”.

“It is always exciting and a little terrifying to let ‘my people’ loose in the world but I do think that you will be taken in by Bec’s new cases,” she said.

Before she came to writing full time Bazzani worked as a singer in the recording studio and on stages across Australia, Italy and Germany, using her voice for both spoken and sung commercial work.

She provided backing for some of Australia’s best-known singers and supplied voices for anything from soap to sunglasses, and from face cream to dog food.

She also graduated from Melbourne University, majoring in Romance Languages, Linguistics and Fine Art, which drew her down the path of writing.

Bazzani’s first book, a fully researched biography of Australian television mogul Hector Crawford, won the Victorian Royal Historical Society Publication Prize.

Her first work of fiction, The Piano Woman, was published in 2021 reflecting her lifetime love of music in a mystery romance, while her cold case mystery, Making Up Amanda, was set in Ballarat.

Next Wednesday’s In Conversation event is part of the Victorian Seniors’ Festival program and will take place from 6pm to 7.30pm.

More information and bookings are available through the BMI Library website and Humanitix.