Sorted on book title (not in series order)
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
Private investigator and former spy Veronica “Ronnie” Tracey knows trouble when she sees it, like the stranger lurking around her friend Emily’s house. Detaining the intruder only makes things worse. The woman is not a petty criminal. She is Kerrin Costa, an...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
“The nights aren’t too cold yet, lucky thing. Otherwise we’d be having a different conversation.”
Jessica Mowbrie, beaten and dumped in the bush like a sack of garbage and lying comatose in a hospital bed: lucky to be alive.
Lorraine Henry doesn’t think Jess is so...Read more
Sam thought the worst part of living alone was the loneliness. She was wrong.
When a hunted man arrives on her doorstep late one night and asks for sanctuary, she agrees to hide him and to not call the police. The mention of a cabal of corruption is enough to convince her to do...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
Dante has come to the small coastal town of Te Kohe, New Zealand, for a fresh start in life. But he doesn't want to open a BnB, or save a charming bookshop, or start a romance with a single mother in need of rescuing.
He just wants to forget about his past career (which involved...Read more
Assassin. Gardener. Reluctant cat adoptee.
All Dante wants is to be left alone in the small New Zealand town no one’s heard of. No drama. No bodies. No questions.
But then, of course, the orchid convention comes to town, and Dante is knee deep in suspects, intrigue,...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 the quiet wine-growing town of Martinborough, Detective Senior Sergeant Kate Sutton is called to investigate the murder of respected local physician Dr. Geoffrey Scott. Found dead in his own garden, the doctor's death sends ripples of unease through the close-knit community....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
Thea, a young woman crushed by guilt, flees to Central America to escape her life in New Zealand.
In Guatemala, she meets the charismatic Chris and his partner, Sarah, and the three of them form a tight bond. While the rest of the world is caught in the grip of the global...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
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
A yellow sports car that won’t stop. One hit-and-run on an August road—and Helsinki’s winter is already overshadowed with murder.
At the President’s Independence Day gala, celebrated editor Pekka Wall and his much-younger partner, rising sci-fi star Tuomas...Read more
"They're not just tenants, they're prey..."High above Manhattan's gilded streets, York Tower rises as the ultimate address for New York's wealthy elite. But with its elderly residents dying at an alarming rate, cracks appear in the building's glossy facade.
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On the remote West Coast of the South Island, vast forests stretch out between mountain ranges and rugged beaches. There, in the small town of Koraha, not a lot happens - until a young girl with blood on her hands walks out of the bush and into the local store, collapsing to the floor....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
It’s January 1983. During his university summer break, Ryan Bradley returns to the remote town of Nashville in New Zealand’s rugged King Country.
It’s a bittersweet he’s working long, punishing hours as a woolpresser, he needs to sell his late mother’s house, and he’s...Read more
