Trish McCormack

McCormack, Trish

Cold Hard Murder

The darkness felt tangible. Like it was pressing against my blind eyes … We were going to die here. Slowly, slowly.

Two people struggle on a ledge high above the surge pool at Punakaiki’s Pancake Rocks. One falls to their death, beginning a sequence of violence as Department of...Read more

Glacier Murder

Glacier guide sleuth Philippa Barnes investigates a murder in New Zealand's Westland National Park.

What do you do when you need to escape from your life? Vivien Revell didn’t intend to die. She was conflicted and scared but she was also creative and clever. She should have got...Read more

Assigned to Murder

It was a monstrous fantasy - but then it all came true. As Philippa Barnes, a young Franz Josef glacier guide, is reeling from her parents' death in a climbing accident, journalist Kirsten Browne is murdered near a mountain lake. Philippa and Kirsten's brother Jack try and find out what she...Read more

Cold Hard Murder, Trish McCormack

The third book in the Philippa Barnes series, COLD HARD MURDER is set in a spectacular region on the West Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. In the earlier books Philippa worked as a glacier guide, but the fragile state of her home area means that she has to seek work elsewhere. She...Read more

Girl of the Mountains

All she had to do now was disappear.

The Hermitage Mt Cook, New Zealand, 1946 When the volatile Stella is hired as a mountain guide she vows never to return to a life of domesticity below the snowline. With her mentor Philip and troubled returned...Read more