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Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential
by Craig Sisterson
Australian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing is booming globally, with antipodean authors regularly featuring on awards and bestseller lists across Europe and North America, and readers and publishers looking more and more to tales from lands Down Under. Hailing from two sparsely populated nations on the far edge of the former Empire-neighbors that are siblings in spirit, vastly different in landscape-Australian and New Zealand crime writers offer readers a blend of exotic and familiar, seasoned by distinctive senses of place, outlook, and humor, and roots that trace to the earliest days of our genre.
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She's a Killer
by Kirsten McDougall
The world's climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by privileged immigrant wealthugees. Thirty-something Alice has a near-genius IQ and lives at home with her mother with whom she communicates by Morse code. Alice's imaginary friend, Simp, has shown up, with a running commentary on her failings. 'I mean, can you even calculate the square root of 762 anymore?' The last time Simp was here was when Alice was seven, on the night a fire burned down the family home. Now Simp seems to be plotting something. When Alice meets a wealthugee named Pablo, she thinks she's found a way out of her dull existence. But then she meets Pablo's teenage daughter, Erika - an actual genius full of terrifying ambition. She's a Killer is the story of a brilliant and stubborn slacker who is drawn into radical action. It's about what happens when we refuse to face our most demanding problems, told by a woman who is a strange and calculating force of chaos.
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Pet
by Catherine Chidgey
Set in New Zealand in the 1980s and touching on themes of racism, misogyny and the oppressive reaches of Catholicism, this suspenseful new psychological thriller follows 12-year-old Justine who longs to become her glamorous, charismatic new teacher's pet until she senses something isn't quite right.
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Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
The founder of a guerilla gardening group that plants crops on roadsides, parks and neglected yards fights an enigmatic billionaire over a parcel of land in the new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries.
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Better the Blood: A Hana Westerman Thriller
by Michael Bennett
Hana Westerman—a Maori detective juggling career pressures, single motherhood and endemic prejudice investigates two ritualistic murders that have a chilling connection to the execution of a Maori chief during the bloody British colonization of New Zealand 160 years prior.
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There Should Have Been Eight
by Nalini Singh
Gathering at their late friend Bea's family estate in New Zealand's Southern Alps for a reunion, a group of friends are plagued by long-buried grief, bitterness and rage, revealing that Bea's shocking death wasn't what it was claimed to be—and that the truth will finally be unleashed no matter the cost.
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The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
A novel of the charged relationships between European and Polynesian descendents in New Zealand explores the fluctuating bonds connecting three South Sea natives as they struggle to endure.
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The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh
by Ngaio Marsh
New Zealand-born mystery writer Ngaio ("Nye-oh") Marsh died in 1982. While undeniably popular, her books, many starring Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, seldom received the accolades reserved for Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers. This collection of Marsh's short fiction offers a fascinating look at the evolution of a series character by a master of the detective genre.
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The Quiet People
by Paul Cleave
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living. So when their seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time...Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?
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The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.
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