Blogs in September 2024

Murder in the Pacific: Mt Yasur 26th September 2024

Book 1 in the series was Shortlisted for 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Debut Crime Fiction’ In the heart of Vanuatu’s Tanna island, Hu Lee, the leader of an aid agency, meets a tragic end, fatally stabbed amidst a...

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Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point 26th September 2024

‘Shortlisted for 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Debut Crime Fiction’ Esther Paul is 12 years old. She is reported missing on Vanuatu local radio. Two days later her body is found floating in the sea off Ifira Point in...

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When in Vanuatu 25th April 2021

When Diana quit her job and followed her husband to Manila, she believed the move would work for both of them: Jay would finally have his dream job, and she would take time off from her accounting career to...

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Things Bright and Beautiful 10th April 2018

Advent Island is a place beyond the reaches of Bea’s most fitful imaginings. It’s not just the rats and the hordes of mosquitos and the weevils in the powdered milk. Past the confines of their stuffy little house, amidst...

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Man Belong Mrs Queen 1st January 1970

As a bookish child growing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. He even had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. Years later, his Philip-worship long...

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