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Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man’s head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn’t hear. It’s 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of London, where Pandora’s Box just got opened...Read more
Freshly back from Europe with a new job, Samantha Svensson (Sven) reconnects with her old friends while managing a new role within the Big Super Ministry – where everyone is busy playing their own internal political games.
After the HR Director ends up dead on the same train...Read more
What if delivering the mail was a matter of life and death?
Somebody brutally kills a postman in Quake City while he’s delivering the mail.
Private investigator Danny Ashford suspects the police will bungle the investigation—they usually do. He joins forces with...Read more
Bridget Crawford is in a bind. The bank’s threatened to foreclose on her farm, her ex-husband’s returned to town, and someone’s stolen her cattle.
Veterinarian Hugh Jacobs is also in a bind. Tui Dancer, a horse in his care, has suddenly lost his winning form, his affair with...Read more
Poor Little Crick, he is a penniless orphan cast upon the cruel world of 19th Century Kirkshire, with the face – no less – of a pretty girl. Yet he is cunning, he has a fire in his belly, and he has the wiles to become anyone he a swooning lady in a drawing room, a cheeky harlot in a...Read more
Four friends.
One tragic death.
20 years of secrets and lies.
One wintery night, when they are young, Anna and her three friends Rudy, Seth, and Dougal are involved in an accident in...Read more
In late summer of 1879, an unexpected, early morning door knock alters Leonard Hardy’s life when a neighbour discovers an unidentified body outside his home. Naturally curious, he sets out to learn the identity of the dead man, but a series of peculiar events and the unexpected appearance...Read more
1950 and Flis is returning to Australia after almost twenty years away in Wellington, New Zealand. In all that time she has had no contact with her younger sister Gladdie who is missing, presumed dead. Flis is determined to find out what happened to her. Accompanied by a young man met on...Read more
When Faith and her husband accidentally get involved in the weird life of Ponytail O'Gorman - a beguiling old fraudster - they have no idea how much he will disrupt their peaceful life in suburban Wellington, New Zealand. But he convinces them to help him in his strange quest to find both...Read more
Sleuth Astrid is a hi tech, mind-reading chook who rides a Harley, uses a z-com and solves mysteries like finding the magician’s lost sense of humour.Read more
It was the Grand Final on Saturday. Carrot the Parrot was the Coach for the Birds' team. But he'd lost his voice. Sleuth Astrid had to find it, in time for the Grand Final because the team needed the Voice of the Coach. Was the Voice captured in the TV 'Footy' studio? Lost down his throat?...Read more
Ex-SAS operator Craig Archer finds himself in the firing line when the long arm of international terrorism reaches out to Auckland.
What should have been a simple snatch and grab for the intelligence service proves to be anything but, and he is soon chasing shadows across the...Read more
Freya returns to Wellington to restore her inheritance, ‘Portobello’, an Art Deco building in Petone, to her former glory. Only to find dubious dealings with various Snakes in Suits, Lawyers, Bankers, the Council and an unscrupulous property developer who will stop at nothing, even murder,...Read more
During Maddy Holt’s senior year in high school she interns for veteran journalist, Elliot Kruger. They quickly forge a close bond; however, after the death of his wife Bebe, Elliot abruptly disappears. Distraught and searching for answers, Maddy stumbles upon clippings detailing Elliot’s...Read more
A Cozy Mystery (with dragons): Tea, cake, and suspicious flooding in the Yorkshire Dales
It never rains, but it pours.
And in Toot Hansell, that goes double…
When Toot Hansell’s water supply turns murky, it’s easy to blame the notoriously...Read more
It is Saturday afternoon and two boys’ schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya – a fifteen year old who barely belongs – watches from the sidelines.
Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure...Read more
Everybody carries emotional baggage throughout their lives…and most resolve their issues.
But what if one individual won’t let go of a longstanding grudge…and enacts a murderous revenge scheme.
Detective Inspector John Mahoney is confronted with a serial killer...Read more
When Charlotte Babcock’s grandmother Estelle dies unexpectedly, she takes the case to S & S Investigations. Charlotte, unlike anyone else, believes the death to be suspicious, and she has three somewhat surprising suspects to offer up: Estelle’s children.
Meanwhile Paige...Read more
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Elias Dunn hates his life. At only 26, he’s the youngest Head of IT for Network 4 and appears to be doing okay. He’s not. He’s living at home with a bipolar mother who uses medication and alcohol to get by. Eli loses himself in fantasy and obsession, stalking targets and colleagues to cope...Read more
Commercial pilot Claire Hardcastle returns. Having survived her second adventure in Straight and Level, she and boyfriend Detective Sergeant Jack Body are off on a well-deserved holiday in the back country of New Zealand. What could possibly go wrong?
Getting lost on the way to...Read more
Royal Marine Commando Jay Samson is ready to move on and enjoy the perks of living the easy life in civvy street, working in a surf shop on Bali in Indonesia. However, a terrorist bombing destroys the surf shop and Jay is quickly drawn to what he does best, landing a contract as a security...Read more
The Army doesn’t want them, they’re too much trouble!
MI6 does, they’re the best at what they do, and they need the best.
MI6 have a problem. A missing agent kidnapped and taken to hostile territory for interrogation.
Only one option is open, and that’...Read more
“Find Me!”
Those are the words on the note crumpled in Laney Donohue’s disabled sister’s hand. All Laney knows is that the young nurse aid who wrote them was taken by a man, and no one stopped him. Laney owes this young woman. She cared for Laney's...Read more
The setting is a remote farming area during a traditional Māori holiday, Matariki, the Māori New Year, a time for celebration, family gatherings, and star gazing. Amber chooses this time to return to her family with her debonair lawyer boyfriend, Malcolm. A jealous, controlling man who,...Read more
Harold Pederson’s discovery ships are in trouble. Specializing in exploring remote estuaries and photographing endangered wildlife in South East Asia and the western Pacific, his fleet ventures into waters that are rife with pirates.
When Jerry Giacomo is hired by Pederson to...Read more
The sequel to "Death on D'Urville," sees Claire Hardcastle involved in another adventure. Her partner, Jack, has been sent on secondment for a month to the Solomon's and Claire plans to use the time he's away to settle down to her studies, observe Dry July and think about the direction in...Read more
In the third instalment of the Le Fanu Mystery series, the intrepid superintendent is promoted to Inspector-General of Police in 1920s Madras, which proves to be more boring than he had envisaged. Instead of pushing papers across his desk, Le Fanu focuses on the disappearance of a senior...Read more
Dana Osborne just wants to hang out in her guitar store talking music with her assistant Brody, and her colourful customers. But when once-famous prog-rock band Cranial Bypass decide to put on a reunion gig in her small town of Rockingham West, things get unexpectedly hectic.Read more
In The Student Body, Simon Wyatt takes the reader on a thrilling journey to catch a killer through his eyes as a former police detective. A popular fifteen-year-old girl is strangled to death at a school camp on Auckland's west coast. The posing of the body suggests a sexual motive. Nick...Read more
