THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BETTER THE BLOOD AND RETURN TO BLOOD.In the depths of the bleak New Zealand winter comes the rising of Matariki – a sacred constellation in Māori culture, heralding a time of new beginnings. For former Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman, life is good: her work in her hometown of Tātā Bay is going well, the community is thriving, and her daughter Addison is getting engaged.But...

'A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Māori culture' Val McDermidA DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH.A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION.A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY.THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED.WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF PARADISE.Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s C...

WINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2025Two murders. Two decades apart.One chance to get justice.Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants is a fresh start.The discovery of a skeleton in the dunes near her house changes everything. The remains are those of a young Maori woman who went missing four years before, and Hana...

From the award-winning co-writer of The Gone comes a gripping new crime thriller where the official story says accident – but the dead say otherwise.Chloe is about to have the worst day of her life.A rookie cop in Sydney, she responds to a call-out on a housing estate: reports of a gunman, a building in lockdown, backup still minutes away. Going in alone, Chloe is pulled upwards – floor by floor – ...

There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker. With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could trace the movements of people across vast swathes of country. Celebrated as saviours of lost children and disoriented adults, and finders of missing livestock, they...

Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the horrors of smallpox, the hopes in...

THE GRIPPING NEW DUAL-VOICE THRILLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BETTER THE BLOOD AND RETURN TO BLOOD**.**In the depths of the bleak New Zealand winter comes the rising of Matariki – a sacred constellation in Maori culture, heralding a time of new beginnings. For former Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman, life is good: her work in her hometown of Tata Bay is going well, the community is...

Teina Pora, a 17-year-old car thief, was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Burdett, who had been beaten to death with the softball bat she kept next to her bed for her own protection Tim McKinnel, en ex-cop turned private investigator, discovered the long forgotten case 18 years later, saw an injustice had been done and set out to win Teina’s freedom. Reaching from the mean streets of South Auckland to the highest court in the Commonwealth, this is t...

An in-depth, full-color, step-by-step guide to the new golf swing that has taken the PGA Tour by stormThe traditional golf swing requires a level of coordination that few golfers have. So it's no surprise that, despite huge advances in club and ball technology, the average golf handicap in America has dropped by only one stroke since 1990. Maverick golf instructors Michael Bennett and Andy Plummer spent a decade researching the swing, eventually combining physiolog...

'A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Māori culture' Val McDermidA DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH.A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION.A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY.THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED.WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF PARADISE.Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s C...

From the award-winning co-writer of The Gone comes a gripping new crime thriller where the official story says accident – but the dead say otherwise.Chloe is about to have the worst day of her life.A rookie cop in Sydney, she responds to a call-out on a housing estate: reports of a gunman, a building in lockdown, backup still minutes away. Going in alone, Chloe is pulled upwards – floor by floor – ...

Beneath the waters of the Pacific, hidden from the human world, lies a kingdom few have ever seen.From the ancient City of Light beneath Mount Shasta to the depths of the Emerald Castle, the ocean is alive with memory, power, and guardians sworn to protect its balance. At the center of it all stands the Crystal Window, an ancient relic that reveals not the future, but the consequences of choice.Angelica, Princess of the Sea, has been warned never to interfere with what the ...