A House Built on Sand

Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files—and her job as a result. Her marbles? ‘Mild cognitive impairment’, according to the doctor. Time for a nursing home, according to her daughter, Rose.

Rose has her own troubles with...Read more

Breathe and Release

Elisabet wakes with amnesia. The care offered to her by a husband she doesn’t remember descends within weeks into aggression and violence.

Lillian lies hogtied in an underground cell. Forget about escape; unless she can manage the necessities of life she’ll be dead within days...Read more

Bad Oil and the Animals

Sixteen-year old Heidi has always dreamed of being a society photographer for the rich and famous. Instead, her first film project plunges her into a world of subterfuge as she joins a courageous group of teenage protesters committed to saving orangutans in the wild. 

An...Read more

Crystal Reign

Former Navy Lieutenant Commander and MMA instructor David Johnson has it all: an amazing wife, three beautiful kids and a great job. He’s the man who can handle anything, and anyone – until his wife Chrissie is introduced to methamphetamine at a friend’s New Year's Eve party. Slowly but...Read more

One Little Lie

Nineteen-year-old Melissa and her three friends, Katrina, Belinda and Alison, take up an offer of work for the Christmas holidays on Melissa’s uncle’s tomato farm on Waiheke Island. The girls can’t wait to swap their university days for the carefree life, summer provides. However, Melissa...Read more

We All Fall

Myra fell from the trapeze, and then she fell in love. Which one will hurt her the most?

Something is not right at the circus. Since Myra’s accident, there have been an unexplainable number of falls, and a strange, hot wind whispering through the tents.

Then, a new...Read more

The Ultimate Community

The Ultimate Life? Or the Ultimate Lie?

Alice Parker’s zest for life is contagious. When she’s not working in her father’s bar in London, she’s out partying with her friends. Some might say she is having too much fun.Read more

Dark Empire

Katherine Mansfield created some of literature’s most chilling characters, not least Harry Kember and his wife. They seemed out of place among the families enjoying summer holidays at Wellington’s Days Bay. Some of the women at the Bay thought that one day Harry would commit a murder....Read more

Deadhead

The story starts with the death of Constable Garrett... and continues with his resurrection as a conscious cyborg initially controlled by Spencer Langley aged 13, inventor, entrepreneur and car thief. Things get even more complicated with the introduction of sinister criminals and Garrett’s...Read more

Tell Me Lies

Margot’s clients all lie to her, but one lie could cost her family and freedom.

Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children, and a successful career. On a warm spring morning, Margot spots one of her clients on a busy...Read more

Polaroid Nights

Auckland city bars, 1996, when the click / whirr of a Polaroid 600 proved you were living your best life. Betty’s is on repeat: waitress till late, drink till dawn, in bed to forget. But partying like there’s no tomorrow is no fix for the problems crowding in. Her ex is back and drinking at...Read more

Kill Her

Zoe Herewini's treatment for her irrational behaviour threatens to reveal the killer of her sister. The killer must silence her.

Members of a protest group wish to kill the Prime Minister, Jennifer Allenby for imposing sanctions on people's freedoms during the Covid-19 pandemic...Read more

Neands 2

At the end of Neands, in a world that has turned against them, Charlie, Pru, and Ivy have found refuge but they are desperate for answers. As they set out to find out what happened to Charlie’s mother and their foster parents, Alan and Ngaire, Em and her brother Miro are risking their lives...Read more

Paper Cage

Masterton isn’t a big town. The community’s tight, if not always harmonious. So when a child goes missing it’s a big deal for everyone. And when a second kid disappears, the whole town’s holding their own children that little bit tighter.

Lorraine doesn’t have kids, but she has...Read more

Finding Fabi

When brilliant but emotionally-tortured New York journalist Bec Corelli learns her father has died mysteriously on vacation in India, she walks out on her job and heads to Delhi. Pharmaceutical CEO Ernst Reiniger, facing ruin over a failed drug, has hatched a chilling plan to save his 300-...Read more

His Favourite Graves

Desperate for reward money – and to rescue his marriage – an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime.

Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Logan's life is falling apart – his ...Read more

Bunny

Two eyes bore into him from across the room. They're not her eyes. They're the same colour and shape, but they're not her eyes.

'I see you.'

Silas didn't have a happy childhood. Aunt Bunny made sure of that. But out of money and almost...Read more

Death and the Dancing Girl

In 1945, a few months after the end of World War II, Tom Blake learns his wife is lost in France. She was arrested by the Gestapo but where is she now? More shocking, when last seen, Madeleine was pregnant. Tom returns to a France that has been devastated by war to try and find both his...Read more

The Royal Free

James Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter, and a medical editor tasked with saving the ‘third oldest medical journal in the world’, the Royal London Journal of Medicine, from the mistakes no one else notices – the misplaced apostrophes, the Freudian misspelling, the wrong subtype of an influenza strain (H2N1 or H5N1?).Read more

The Defiance of Frances Dickinson

A woman who braved public disgrace to expose a brutal marriage.

1838, England: When eighteen-year-old heiress Frances Dickinson impulsively marries Lieutenant John Geils, she soon discovers there is much about her husband she did not know. A cruel and violent man, John keeps...Read more

Anyone Can Murder

When Hubert Carson, the editorial manager of the Herald Newspaper in Auckland, is found dead in his office, the autopsy reveals that it was a blow on the head that killed him, a mild heart attack probably causing him to fall. Carson's fellow employees are not so sure. They knew that the...Read more

Burial

Nathan has never been able to forget the worst night of his life:  the party that led to the sudden, shocking disappearance of a young woman.  Only he and Bob, an old acquaintance, know what really happened and they have resolved to keep it that way.  But one rainy night, years later, Bob...Read more

Crossing Live

New novel in Chris Niles' witty series featuring Sam Ridley, following Spike It and Run Time.When Bruce McCarthy dies soon after reporting that his house is haunted, radio hack Sam Ridley decides to investigate. But he's soon up against forces far more dangerous than the supernatural . . ....Read more

Bittersweet

Bryce Ackerman returns home from a business trip to Vienna expecting to marry his beloved Aimée in June. But scandal! She is pregnant. This is 1872 and Bryce is a Victorian gentleman who doesn’t believe in sex before marriage. Aimée, distraught and disgraced, tells him of the officers from...Read more

Duplicity

This book tells the unique true-life story of Sophia Huston. Set in Sydney's upper echelons, Sophia offers love-for-sale to high society's elite businessmen.

Born into eye-watering wealth, Sophia is intelligent, stunning, and a charming sophisticate. Life's perfect until her...Read more

The Security

Secrets. Everyone has them. Nice ones that make your heart soar, little ones that make you blush, naughty ones that make you smile and dark ones you hope will remain hidden forever.

One thing’s for certain – everyone wants their secrets kept out of the public eye. Especially...Read more

Crimechurch

Life in the safe suburbs of Christchurch isn't dangerous enough for Marty. He needs excitement in punk, protest, politics and crackpipes. Marty soon finds Mona, a teenage runaway living in a flophouse of skinheads and goths. The two of them live for drugs and dodgy deals but they are...Read more

Cold Wallet

'You have kind eyes.' The last words Andrew said to Jess just before he died on their honeymoon. Grief stricken, she returns to New Zealand and to the cryptocurrency exchange he left her in his will. Knowing nothing about cryptocurrency, Jess, a physician, turns to Andrew's associate, Henry...Read more

The Drowning

A lakefront town troubled by lies
A lost diary with coded secrets
And a killer with nothing to lose.

---

Silver Bay is an idyllic lakefront town where people go to escape. When Cleo Williams learns her aunt’s cottage will be vacant all summer, she...Read more

Pages