Category Archives: New Zealand

Ngaio Marsh Awards Blog Tour: Simon Wyatt’s THE STUDENT BODY

Posted on September 7, 2017 by bernadetteinoz

The Ngaio Marsh Awards honour New Zealand’s best crime writing and winners in three categories for the 2017 awards will be announced in October. As part of leadup festivities to that announcement there is a month-long blog tour focusing on … Continue reading →

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Review: THE FACELESS by Vanda Symon

Posted on December 22, 2016 by bernadetteinoz

Billy is a young homeless woman living on the streets of Auckland. Her favourite thing to do is create street art. Beautiful street art; Billy is no tagger. Occasionally – to fund art supplies or food – she will sell … Continue reading →

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Review: SWIMMING IN THE DARK by Paddy Richardson

Posted on January 5, 2015 by bernadetteinoz

I love it when a book takes me in a completely unexpected direction. SWIMMING IN THE DARK did this several times. In less than three hundred pages. Bliss. As the book opens we meet high school student Serena Freeman. Just … Continue reading →

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Review: TRACES OF RED by Paddy Richardson

Posted on September 8, 2013 by bernadetteinoz

TRACES OF RED opens with teenager Katy Dickson returning to her family home after a sleepover at a friend’s. She discovers her parents and younger brother have all been brutally murdered. The rest of the story is seen through the … Continue reading →

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Review: HUNTING BLIND by Paddy Richardson

Posted on June 11, 2013 by bernadetteinoz

Fourteen year old Stephanie is at the annual school picnic in her small New Zealand town. She’d rather be off with her friends but she’s been forced to come along with her mum, Minna, so she can help look after … Continue reading →

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Review: Surrender by Donna Malane

Posted on February 3, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

Diane Rowe finds people for a living. Whether it be for family members, PI firms, lawyers looking for witnesses, insurance companies, television shows or the cops Diane’s job is to find people who have gone missing. In the case that threads through … Continue reading →

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Review: Bound by Vanda Symon

Posted on April 20, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

A man is shot through the head in his Dunedin home while his wife, bound to a chair and struggling to breathe through the gag in her mouth, watches helplessly. The couple’s son returns home to an unthinkably awful scene. … Continue reading →

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Crime Fiction Alphabet: N is for New Zealand

Posted on April 11, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

I was prompted to highlight New Zealand after stumbling across this rather sad little collection of four entries in the New Zealand location index at Stop You’re Killing Me. Now I’m not blaming the fine people at Stop…, it’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bev Robitai, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Lindy Kelly, New Zealand, Vanda Symon | 9 Comments

Review: Murder in the Second Row by Bev Robitai

Posted on February 3, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

My second book for the Global Challlenge this year takes me to New Zealand and a book I learned about from Kiwi crime fiction blogger Craig Sisterson. I’ve no clue how the digital age is going to impact writers and … Continue reading →

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Review: Containment by Vanda Symon

Posted on November 26, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

The third story to feature detective constable Sam Shephard opens memorably as a container ship runs aground near Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island and the contents of several of its containers are strewn across the beach. Sam wakes up … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, New Zealand, Vanda Symon | 8 Comments