"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."
"Patterson, a mother and self-described true crime enthusiast, invited her estranged husband's parents, Gail and Don Patterson, and Gail's sister and brother-in-law, Heather and Ian Wilkinson, to lunch at her Victoria home in July 2023. Within days, three of the guests were dead and the fourth lay in a coma. Patterson, 51, denied any intent to harm them, claiming she had bought the mushrooms from a grocer and discarded a food dehydrator that later tested positive for deadly toxins only out of panic."
Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein will publish The Mushroom Tapes on 20 November via W&N. The book focuses on the Erin Patterson case in which three former in-laws died and a fourth was critically injured after eating a beef Wellington contaminated with death-cap mushrooms in July 2023. An 11-week trial found Patterson guilty of three murders and one attempted murder; she was sentenced to life with a non-parole period of 33 years. Patterson denied intent, saying she bought the mushrooms and discarded a dehydrator in panic. The case generated global attention and inspired multiple screen and documentary projects, and the writers frame the story around themes such as love, hate, jealousy, revenge, marriage, money, mycology and murder.
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