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Against the Grain

Dana Osborne is looking forward to some quiet time after going undercover with a rock band to solve her last case. But she’s forced into action when an old friend starts to receive mysterious threats, and Detective Wade McNeish once again proves about as much use as a custard guitar pick...Read more

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Angels of Clay

At the beginning of summer, a young Lotto millionaire is found dead in the clay pit of a renowned pottery retreat. The body is laid out in the shape of an X, with markings in the earth that resemble an angel-deliberate, unsettling, and inexplicable.

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The Benefactor's Son

A politically-charged thriller set against the background of the "Umbrella Movement" protests in Hong Kong over democracy and human rights issues in 2014 to 2019. Harry Trimble Jr. from New Zealand, arrives in Hong Kong amidst the protests to meet with his love-interest Sue White from his...Read more

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The Birds Began to Sing

In the harbour city of New Plymouth in the 1960s there’s a fizz of seedy sexuality beneath a veneer of respectability. Godfrey’s world is the Balmoral Hotel his parents own, where visiting sailors drink and local fringe-dwellers congregate.

When Reggie, the openly gay barman,...Read more

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Blue Money

Blue Money is hardboiled New Zealand crime noir, set in the dirty back streets of Wellington and the rich estates of the Wairarapa.

Dave Beck is a reporter languishing on the property desk of the city’s newspaper after being demoted from the crime beat, when he is asked to find...Read more

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The Boat Shed

An unidentified young girl is found dead in suspicious circumstances in an abandoned boat shed on Rangitoto Island. Detective Frank Smythe of the Maritime Police teams up with Detective Anahera Raupara of CIB to investigate. There is more to this than first thought after a second body is...Read more

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The Corrector

Be careful who you cross.

Evin leads a quiet, orderly life as a classic motorcycle restorer in a small seaside town. Until she witnesses a gang-affiliate’s nasty little secret. A body washes up on the coast several days later, dragging her further into a...Read more

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The Cracks in the Crockery

In the comfort of their secluded farmhouse, a local housekeeper serves her employers and their extended family a delicious Sunday roast. While the family enjoys the mouth-watering dish, however, foul developments are afoot. The moment they lay down their cutlery, they are informed that the...Read more

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Dancing In The Purple Rain

Being special can make you a target

In a world ravaged by pandemics and poisoned by acid rain, experimental pharmaceuticals are used to genetically engineer the population to adapt to the toxic atmosphere. However, unexpected results have created drug-dependent...Read more

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Death at Beekeepers Hollow

A locked rehab clinic, two missing women—and one woman who won’t look away.

When estate agent and former probation officer Madeleine Brooks hears her friend’s long-lost daughter has vanished from a high-security rehab centre, she’s concerned. When a second young...Read more

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Empathy

Marketing executive Alison Morris bets her reputation on a project to sell empathy in a perfume bottle. Her husband, Jim, is inspired to try a similar thing in a game he's developing - sinking all their money into EmPath, where people progress by learning to understand one another without...Read more

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Fatima Down Under

Fatima Downunder is Book Three of the journeys of Dennis Bogdanovich, sanitary engineer and keen fisherman, last seen in Book Two, Swimming with Crocodiles. The final book in the trilogy is affecting, engaging and immensely satisfying.Read more

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The Good Father

Gordon and Sarah Rutherford are normal, happy people with rich, fulfilling lives. They have a son they adore, a house on the beach and a safe, friendly community in a picture-postcard town.

Until, one day, Bonnie the labrador comes in from the beach alone. Their son, Rory, has...Read more

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Handful

Courage, first love, and a secret worth fighting for.

Spring in suburban Finland. Tuomas Ylivire is on the verge of growing up—and trouble.

With a judo kit, a sharp tongue, and the rule-bending instincts of his legendary detective father, he thinks he’...Read more

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High Impact Insensitivity

Mark Goodenough’s just made the biggest blunder in New Zealand sports broadcasting history. He’s been fired from his job in radio and humiliated on air. His girlfriend has dumped him for his ex-best friend, and he’s about to go viral in the worst possible way.

But there is a...Read more

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Hooked Up

The unforgettable detective duo from 'The Doctor’s Wife' are back, and this time the stakes are even higher. 

When DS Ramesh Bandara is asked to head up a homicide investigation in a small New Zealand beachside town, he has no idea he’s stumbled onto something much bigger. With...Read more

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How The Games Began

Two sadistic serial killers. One city. A deadly game of cat and mouse has just begun.

In the shadows of New York, a meticulous predator perfects his art. His methods are clean, his purpose to capture the final, fleeting moments of life in his signature Polaroid...Read more

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Human Error

It is late in the evening when a fully-loaded Dreamliner begins its final approach to Auckland airport after a long flight from Hong Kong.

Passengers are getting ready to land, air traffic controllers are about to hand the plane over to the local tower, when suddenly the plane...Read more

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I Killed Lucy

In a tangled web of betrayal and revenge, Lucy's life comes to a brutal end, and four women emerge, each claiming to be her killer.

Lucy, in her thirties, lives with her nine-year-old daughter, Paige, from a previous marriage. Over the years, Lucy has wreaked...Read more

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Indigo Romeo Lima

Private investigator and former spy Veronica “Ronnie” Tracey knows trouble when she sees it, like the stranger lurking around her friend Emily’s house. Detaining the intruder only makes things worse. The woman is not a petty criminal. She is Kerrin Costa, an...Read more

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Lepan's Shadow

An international mystery spanning decades and continents, triggered by a death in Chile's Atacama Desert.

Cliff West, a retired professor from New Zealand, hauls the body of renowned anthropologist Antoine Lepan from a steam-shrouded hot pool at the El Tatio...Read more

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Lethal Finesse

Someone knows her secrets. Someone is watching.

Maggie’s life is predictable. Days spent in the office, nights at the bridge table. But when a stranger enters her world, unsettling things begin to happen. Cryptic messages appear. Pranks that cross a line. Someone...Read more

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A Man Called Box

Sam thought the worst part of living alone was the loneliness. She was wrong.

When a hunted man arrives on her doorstep late one night and asks for sanctuary, she agrees to hide him and to not call the police. The mention of a cabal of corruption is enough to convince her to do...Read more

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The Minerva Agenda

A timeless deadly conspiracy, a faceless enemy—can they stop Minerva before democracy falls?

CIA veteran Tony Mancini and ambitious MI6 officer Caroline Sinclair navigate a deadly clandestine world, tracking Minerva— a shadowy force manipulating global events...Read more

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No Good Deed

Marriage. Memory. Medicine. Malice.

Charlotte and Henry, a married couple in their sixties, lead comfortable but monotonous lives in Middle England. Following a health scare, Henry has retired from his post as a consultant pathologist. Charlotte once wanted to...Read more

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The Retired Assassin's Guide to Country Gardening

Dante has come to the small coastal town of Te Kohe, New Zealand, for a fresh start in life. But he doesn't want to open a BnB, or save a charming bookshop, or start a romance with a single mother in need of rescuing.

He just wants to forget about his past career (which involved...Read more

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The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting

Assassin. Gardener. Reluctant cat adoptee.

All Dante wants is to be left alone in the small New Zealand town no one’s heard of. No drama. No bodies. No questions.

But then, of course, the orchid convention comes to town, and Dante is knee deep in suspects, intrigue,...Read more

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Revenge and Rabbit Holes

Just as life is returning to normal for unlikely housemates Bella and Freyja after their dramatic rescue of an abducted child on the Kāpiti Coast, strange threats disrupt their peace, and they find themselves helping Jonah, a young man caught up with violent conspiracy theorists. When...Read more

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Rita Vegas

The Serenity Centre in Cambodia was full of secrets, of skeletons, bones in the closet, things unrevealed and undisclosed. You sensed it. There was an atmosphere. The discovery of a dead body only added to the tension, and triggered in Rita painful memories of events in New Zealand five...Read more

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