Hidden in the dense bush of the Manawatu, a tiny skeleton lies overgrown with weeds. DSS Archie Baldrick and DC Ben Travers discover that the victim is a young child who went missing from a rural skate park twenty years earlier. Who could possibly have abducted Lukas Branson and kept him hidden for over two years? The detectives have their hands full following up old leads - and opening up old wounds. Then there is a murder in the city centre and suddenly their investigations become doubly complicated ...

Author

Christina O'Reilly

Christina O’Reilly is a writer, freelance proofreader, and copy editor currently living in the Manawatu. Two of her short stories have been published in the anthologies Horizons 3 and The Rangitawa Collection 2017. Her first crime novel, Into the Void, was recently longlisted for the 2019 Michael Gifkins Memorial Prize for an Unpublished Novel.

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Books:

Series: Baldrick and Travers

Book Number:
3
2022
Book Number:
2
2020
Book Number:
1
2019
Review A Virtuous Lie, Christina O'Reilly
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Review Retribution, Christina O'Reilly
Karen Chisholm
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Review Into the Void
Karen Chisholm
Monday, May 25, 2020
ISBN
9780473644390
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Book Number (in series)
3
Review A Virtuous Lie, Christina O'Reilly
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, August 10, 2023

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