Blogs in October 2014

Diggers, Hatter and Whores 5th October 2014

The social history of New Zealand’s gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries.A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the...

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Shanghai Boy 5th October 2014

A clever and compelling novel about illicit love and raw passion with unexpected twists and poignant depth.Manfred Morse has just hit fifty, and also the wall. Life seems empty. His marriage is long since over, his leathery old father...

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Cemetery Lake 5th October 2014

What began as a routine exhumation of a suspected murder victim quickly turns complicated for private investigator Theodore Tate… Theo Tate is barely coping with life since his world was turned upside down two years ago. As he stands...

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Blood Men 5th October 2014

Edward Hunter has it all-a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future…and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in New Zealand’s most hellish of penitentiaries. That...

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The Laughterhouse 5th October 2014

Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene-ten year-old Jessica Cole found dead in “the Laughterhouse,” an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the “S” painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years...

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