Аликс Боско0.0 When he lifts his arms to point the camera at me, the shirt bunches around the muscles of his biceps and his shoulders.
'What's this about? Who sent you?'
'There's a simple message: back off.'
The photograph has printed. He holds it up, shakes it dry and looks at it appraisingly. 'Not bad,' he says, turning the photo so I can see it.
I look at myself, smiling at the camera, reflexively.
'This is for you,' he says, giving it to me. 'Keep it handy, so you can show the plastic surgeon what you used to look like.'
When a rugby star, who began life on the city streets, is murdered in the arms of a beautiful celebrity, it seems to be an open and shut case of a drug deal gone wrong. But Anna Markunas, legal researcher for the prime suspect's defence team, begins to uncover a far more sinister truth - a truth that could destroy everything and everyone she cares about most. And could, ultimately, destroy her.
Ванда Симон0.0 Detective Constable Sam Shepard knows first-hand the desperation of the scavengers- she's got the scars to prove it. Plus a skull in the sand. And a body pulled from the ocean. The undercurrents from one morning's madness are far-reaching. Who else will be caught in the backwash? Can Sam stem the tide?
"This is a 300+ page cracker of a contemporary crime fiction novel set in and around Dunedin ... A compelling whodunnit with all the usual twists and turns so loved by readers of the crime fiction genre... "
Graham Beattie, Radio New Zealand
Нил Кросс5.0 How do you live with your guiltiest secret? And what do you do when it comes back to haunt you, threatening to destroy everything? Neil Cross's 'Burial' explores this stark predicament.