- Location(s): Auckland
- Genre(s): Thriller, Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
The City looks away … but someone is watching… A killer is hunting Auckland’s homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people. Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland – among the...
- Location(s): Dunedin, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the official investigation into the murder of a respectable local businessman fails to add up, and personal problems start to play havoc with her state of mind, New Zealand’s favourite young detective Sam Shephard turns vigilante… ‘Fast-moving New...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
A killer targeting pregnant women. A detective expecting her first baby… The shocking murder of a heavily pregnant woman throws the New Zealand city of Dunedin into a tailspin, and the devastating crime feels uncomfortably close to home for...
- Location(s): Auckland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Worn down by a job he hates, and a stressful family life, middle-aged, middle-class Bradley picks up a teenage escort and commits an unspeakable crime. Now she’s tied up in his warehouse, and he doesn’t know what to do....
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Mystery
Constable Sam Shephard has moved to Dunedin to begin training as a detective in the police force. Sidelined from a murder investigation, Sam is assigned duties as peacekeeper between a visiting circus and animal-rights protestors. After a university student...
- Location(s): Mataura
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 1 in the PC Sam Shephard series. Action-packed, tension-filled and atmospheric police procedural set in rural New Zealand. When the body of a young mother is found washed up on the banks of the Mataura River, a small...
- Location(s): Dunedin, Aramoana
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Sam Shephard Book 3) Chaos reigns in the sleepy village of Aramoana on the New Zealand coast, when a series of shipping containers wash up on the beach and looting begins. Detective Constable Sam Shephard experiences the desperation of...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
No.6 in the Sam Shepherd thriller series. On her first day back from maternity leave, Detective Sam Shephard is thrown straight into a cold-case investigation – the unsolved murder of a highly respected Anglican Priest in Dunedin. The case...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Death is stalking the South Island of New Zealand Marginalised by previous antics, Sam Shephard, is on the bottom rung of detective training in Dunedin, and her boss makes sure she knows it. She gets involved in her first...









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