Sorted on book title (not in series order)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s opening night at the theatre and Addison Harper has front-row seats with Sergeant Jake Murphy. This might just be his perfect date.
The variety show promises spooky Halloween fun, ghoulish drag queens, frightening musical numbers, and the...Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In this compulsive debut thriller set in Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs, one detective’s investigation into a family tragedy threatens to collapse a powerful dynasty. . . .
When Skye married into the wealthy Campbell family, she thought she was entering paradise....Read more
Justice doesn’t stop at blue water.
At night, the ocean bleeds.
By morning, sharks wash up without their fins.
And a village that once lived in harmony with the sea now looks the other way.
Leilani is a champion freediver and marine...Read more
When bones of a mother and her child, wrapped in a Shetland lace shawl, are dug up from a forgotten graveyard, two worlds collide.
Ariel is raised on an isolated farm in New Zealand. She’s tough but when she’s blamed for an accident for which she has no recollection, her world...Read more
Danger can hide in plain sight.
After being injured while breaking up a gang fight in Auckland, Senior Constable Mitch Cramer temporarily transfers to New Zealand’s subtropical north, hoping for a quieter pace.
But just days before Christmas, things are far from quiet...Read more
Nicolette Briggs doesn’t do humans.
As Wellington’s premier, and possibly only, animal detective, Nicolette mostly investigates missing pets and cases of animal cruelty. So when her latest client asks her to investigate a case of a poisoned cat, it seems right up...Read more
In a future world, only a few hydrospheres, like AotearoaNZ, have enough drinkable water, nearly all sold overseas. Alex is a mnemopath, a professional memory machine, at the main water trading bureau, WaiOra. Her job isn’t noble, selling water overseas while locals die of thirst. But she...Read more
Skulls, Hitmen, and Deadly Secrets—One Explosive MysteryHis life at a crossroads, Ric Peters is torn between his perilous job and dreams of a future with Elaina. But their trip to New Zealand throws them into chaos as they are swept up in a whirlwind of danger and dark...Read more
One dead bank manager.
A long list of people who held grudges against him.
But did any of them hate him enough to kill him?
To discover the truth, step into 1988, in a small seaside town in the South...Read more