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Going Zero by Anthony McCarten – 2023An utterly compelling read that drags the reader through the dangers of invasive information-gathering, the “erratic, unstable,...
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End Times by Rebecca Priestley – 2023Two fifty-something women going on a road trip to engage with their ancestry, their past, home-baked pies – and to visit the...
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Mami Suzuki: Private Eye by Simon Rowe – 2023Mami Suzuki is moonlighting as a private eye in Kobe, Japan. She is doing so unbeknownst to the management of the Orient Hotel where...
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Return to Blood by Michael Bennett – 2024Hana Westerman is back staking out houses, interviewing suspects, filming crimes in progress, and piecing together scraps of...
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Emergency Weather by Tim Jones – 2023An Aotearoa we are all familiar with – extreme weather events, houses washed away, roads impassable, calls for resilience and...
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El Flamingo by Nick Davies – 2023Lou Galloway has given up his Hollywood dream and taken off for Mexico – where he falls into a whirlwind adventure, acting out the role...
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The Quarry by Kim Hunt – 2023Dif is a rough sleeper, for good reasons he is lying low, keeping clear of the law. However, when he witnesses a woman’s body being...
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Black Silk & Sympathy by Deborah Challinor – 2024Black Silk & Sympathy is the first in a new series from Deborah Challinor, set in the second half of the 18 th Century in stinky...
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Dice by Claire Baylis – 2023Four teenage boys accused of sexual offending, three teenage girls under the spotlight of public opinion and speculation. We read their...
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Chasing the Dragon by Mark Wightman – 2023Inspector Maximo Betancourt is back solving crimes in sweaty bustling 1940 Singapore. Like his first outing, Waking the Tiger ,...
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Take Two by Caroline Thonger & Vivian Thonger, illustrated by Alan Thomas – 2023Take two is a random collection of incidents from the U.K. childhoods of two sisters, Caroline and Vivian Thonger. Vivian now lives...
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Resurrection by Roger Simpson – 2023Jane might finally be making headway with a twenty-year-old case, when an accident sends her spinning into a strange world. Three...
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Double Jeopardy by Stef Harris – 2023Frank Winter is a grumpy cynical ex-sheriff who has been working as a cleaner for the last fifteen years. He likes his drink and he...
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Queen, King, Ace by Olivia Hayfield – 2024“Britain needs someone to believe in right now” – its citizens still reeling from the aftermath of Brexit and the badly managed...
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Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay – 2023Gunflower is a collection of stories written by Laura Jean McKay. The collection includes stories written over two decades, there are...
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Bird Life by Anna Smaill – 2023Dinah Glover has fled to Tokyo from Oamaru, Aotearoa. She is living in prime real estate Itabashi, yet her apartment building and...
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His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave – 2023Sheriff James Cohen is struggling with an aged and impaired father, a recalcitrant teenaged son, a wife who loves him but who has left...
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Audition by Pip Adam – 2023“I tried to sigh,” Alba says. “But that banged my head into the roof.” Alba is not in a good way – she is squashed into a small...
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Some Things Wrong by Thomas Pors Koed – 2023Is the narrator imprisoned? Infirm or otherwise incapacitated? Is he mentally compromised? Is he a detained dissident, a...
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Taken by Alex Stone – 2023Four stories narrated by four individuals, each on a continent far away from their homeland. Each story from a different time and...
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Ritual of Fire by D.V. Bishop – 2023Ritual of Fire continues the exploits of Cesare Aldo, an officer of the Otto, a criminal court in 16 th Century Florence. The stench...
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Turncoat by Tīhema Baker – 2023Kytoonoo 1 Daniel is an idealistic young man on Earth – a planet colonised by the Noor from Owteer, who have colonised many planets...
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Blue Hotel by Chad Taylor – 2022If you want to cruise through a tale of classic noir, Blue Hotel is the book for you. The late 1980s, a busted up “old fashioned...
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The Words for Her by Thomasin Sleigh – 2023The words are pouring out of Jodie Pascoe, she is desperate to get them down, to tell her story. She needs to describe her daughter...
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You Are My Sunshine by Octavia Cade – 2023You are my sunshine is an anthology set in a completely recognisable world of ecological and environmental collapse, brought about by...
