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“We would have done anything for her”: Mrs Price, a glamorous teacher in a Catholic primary school in the 1980s, who has her students...

Lou is a good judge of character – she was a Customs Officer at the airport before yet another wave of “the virus” sent Melbourne back...

A mechanic in one of Eliot Patterson’s Detective Shan novels, set in Tibet, sees his job as facilitating the reincarnation of motor...

Sally Diamond lives on the outskirts of the village of Carricksheedy, Ireland. Peter Geary is living in Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand....

“When she and Edie had stepped out of the railway station, she’d stepped into a different country. Palmerston North seemed an innocent,...

When an atrocious murder of a pregnant woman is committed in Dunedin, Detective Sam Shephard’s boss wants her off the investigation...

Birnam Wood starts with mellifluous prose revealing the motivations, attitudes, and self-doubts of three characters who started the...

The General Grant was sailing to Britain from Melbourne in 1866, carrying a large quantity of gold, and miners who had had enough of...

Lorraine Henry is living in Masterton with a dicky hip and the memories she shared with her husband Frank, a cop who died through...

Hotels are great thriller/mystery/horror settings – lots of corridors with lots of rooms, lots of creaky staircases, lots of...

Set on a remote Central Otago sheep station, The Axeman’s Carnival is a dark tale of violence and cruelty. The story unfolds in a...

Tibbie, Carmen, and Austin have been friends for years. Tibbie and Austin partnered up, and when Carmen married Stan, he eventually...

A small mistake leads to two people lying dead and their eleven-year-old son in a coma. The investigation eventually dwindles with the...