Recipe For Murder by Duncan McNab

The poisonous truth behind Erin Patterson and the mushroom murderer of Leongatha

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 jury.

But was this the first time Erin Patterson tried to poison someone she loved? And how did she prepare?  Patterson's cruelty in watching four people who had been nothing but kind and loving to her eat a meal she knew would kill them was the ultimate act of betrayal.

Bestselling author, investigative journalist and former detective, Duncan McNab has sifted through the evidence and attended the nine-week trial to explain in gripping detail the sequence of events that left Gail Patterson, Don Patteson and Heather Wilkinson dead and Ian Wilkinson fighting to survive.  With forensic detail he shows how the lethal plot unfolded and reveals the many ways Patterson followed through with no pity for her victims.  He delivers an explosive book that gives us the whole, cold, calculating story.

Duncan McNab is a former police detective, private investigator specialising in criminal defence, investigative journalist and media adviser to government and the private sector.  He is the author of twelve books, including the phenomenally bestselling Dead Man Running (with Ross Coulthart), Snapshot Killer, Waterfront and Roger Rogerson.  Duncan was a producer on the Kennedy and Clarion award-winning Murder Uncovered series (7 Network) in 2017 and creator/series producer of the groundbreaking Australia Behind Bars (9 Network/ITV).  In 2017 his book Getting Away with Murder won the Ned Kelly Award for best True Crime.  In the same year his bestselling book on disgraced former detective and convicted murderer, Roger Rogerson, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime.

Recipe For Murder

by Duncan McNab

Hachette Australia

RRP: $34.99