Jonothan Cullinane

2017 Wrap Up (Even though it's not over yet people)

Submitted by Karen on December 21, 2017 - 11:37am

I'm behind with everything and bloody hate coming up with Top howevermany's so I'm not pretending to try anymore. Instead, a list of books that just nailed it this year. In no particular order, or quantity, although I have had a go at combining them into geographical locations so you know - result.

Australia

Fiction

Too Easy, J.M. Green (review to come at Newtown Review of Books, but this is the second book in the Stella Hardy series and it's required reading).

The verdicts are in: new Kiwi voices dominate among 2017 Ngaios finalists

Submitted by Karen on August 15, 2017 - 10:14am

Book Title:

The Last Time We Spoke

The Scene of the Crime

Double-Edged Sword

The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie

Author Name:

There’s fresh blood aplenty in the local crime writing ranks and the usual suspects were nowhere to be found as the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists were named on Monday.

#amreading - Red Herring, Jonothan Cullinane

Submitted by Karen on June 30, 2017 - 3:53pm

Book Title:

Red Herring

Author Name:

Jonothan Cullinane

Late in mentioning this one, particularly as I've been reading and re-reading it a couple of times now.

From the Blurb:

Murder, political intrigue, bent cops and the fate of a nation - a thriller set in the murky underworld of 1951 New Zealand.

A man overboard, a murder and a lot of loose ends ...

In Auckland 1951 the workers and the government are heading for bloody confrontation and the waterfront is the frontline. But this is a war with more than two sides and nothing is what it seems.

Red Herring

Submitted by Karen on March 15, 2017 - 12:07pm

Author's Home Country:

New Zealand

Category:

Crime Fiction

Murder, political intrigue, bent cops and the fate of a nation - a thriller set in the murky underworld of 1951 New Zealand.

A man overboard, a murder and a lot of loose ends ...

In Auckland 1951 the workers and the government are heading for bloody confrontation and the waterfront is the frontline. But this is a war with more than two sides and nothing is what it seems.

Into the secret world of rival union politics, dark political agendas and worldwide anti-communist hysteria steps Johnny Molloy, a private detective with secrets of his own.

ISBN:

9781775540984

Publisher:

Harper Collins

Year of Publication:

2016

Jonothan Cullinane

Submitted by Karen on March 15, 2017 - 12:05pm

Author Information

Cullinane, Jonothan

Jonothan Cullinane was born in Palmerston North in 1951. Having established his proletarian bona fides as a roughneck on oil rigs in Canada and the North Sea and as a proofreader and bartender in New York City during the 1970s, he began working in the New Zealand film industry in 1981. In 2007 he wrote and directed We're Here to Help, about the Christchurch businessman Dave Henderson's titanic run-in with the IRD. The unprecedented success of that film led to a job as a postie in Mt Roskill, Auckland, a position he still holds.