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Winner of the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel

“This is the most touching and brutal novel I have read this year… you must read it.” – Chris Simmons, CrimeSquad.com

“Coongahoola and Gracie’s family home are rich, warm, alive places in Lane’s rendering.” – Landfall Journal

“Highly recommended” – Catherine Robertson, New Zealand Listener

“A compelling read…the feeling of menace is excellent” – Louise O’Brien, Radio New Zealand

 “A hugely enjoyable mash-up of small town horror and coming-of-age story“ – Andrew Laxon, New Zealand Herald

 

Australian version (published by Clan Destine Press):

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Available from good bookshops and Amazon

 

New Zealand version (published by Rosa Mira Books):

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NZ$35.00

Or buy the ebook for just NZ $13 from Rosa Mira Books.

 

 

Chapter 11: Rotorua Noir 2019 – a celebration of crime (from which I returned not only completely unharmed but feeling more alive)

Sometime last year, Ngaio Marsh Awards founder Craig Sisterson invited me to Rotorua Noir, a festival he was organising with crime writer Grant Nicol. I quickly signed up because: I was enjoying my newfound status as a ‘crime writer’ This would be New Zealand’s first ever crime writing festival Craig seemed like a pretty cool…

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