After retiring as a Detective Inspector, Ann Grieves enjoys her cottage by the sea. When she isn't sleuthing unfaithful spouses and small-time crooks, she enjoys a laid-back life walking the promenade with Scout, her ex-police Beagle dog or making preserves for the oldies in her street.Until a body turns up in her friend's band room.

American charitable giving veers from the hyperbolically generous to the hyperbolically stingy. On some days, no one has a quarter to spare; in times of disaster, Americans will put their lives on hold to build houses for those displaced by hurricanes. The crucial question of who gives and why they do it lies at the heart of American Generosity. Patricia Snell Herzog and Heather E. Price, sociologists who focus on philanthropy, draw on findings from the groundbreaking Science of G...

The Dart River Valley stand-alone omnibus series has an interesting plot, enhanced by meaningful themes about relying on God in hardship and finding strength in relationships.The revelation of deeply buried secrets and the navigation of complex family feuds threaten the existence of three generations forging their future in this high-country paradiseImmersive descriptions of majestic mountains, bustling ranches, and tranquil rivers transport the reader to the New Zealand high...

When Laura McKenzie returned to Kawau Island with her friend Cass to live in her missing grandmother's cottage, it was a dream come true. The dream turned into a nightmare when she discovered that her grandmother had not drowned but mysteriously disappeared.Will the charming Branson Colby, help her uncover the truth? A macabre discovery shatters Laura's security in her new island home as well as her budding relationship with the Park Ranger.

City detective DS Tony Martin suspects his boss DSS Rob Dean of tampering with evidence connected to a guard's murder at the Port of Auckland and confronts him.Soon after the Port killing, a neighbour discovers Tony lying in a pool of blood in his backyard. His wife Summer refuses to accept the police report that her husband's attacker was a passing opportunist and carries out her own investigations.Summer believes Dean is involved in major organised crime ...

After years of domestic abuse, Meg had become like one of the desperate butterflies her narcissistic husband had trapped in the jar. Then while they were out fishing, she looked in horror as Lyle slipped backwards off the rocks disappearing into the sea. Her legs stood frozen to the spot, rendering her incapable of reaching down to help him. The shock had given her amnesia. Meg couldn't remember if she had deliberately pushed him, or he had fallen backwards. An even greater bombshell await...

Jessie Lee, a young New Zealand vet leaves urban Waikato to join her friend Hope Rigby in the alpine rural village of Glenorchy, Otago. When she takes up her new post as a remote on-call vet, she encounters animosity and prejudice from the male farmers who have lived in the area for decades. They resent having a female vet take over when their long-standing vet, Max retires.When Jessie struggles to gain the respect of the bullying farmers she realises the hard trials she endures wi...

Retired Detective Inspector Ann Grieves, now private investigator, probes the dark secrets of Arcadia, a remote religious sect in West Auckland where abuse of adults and children is rife. After blowing the whistle on their narcissistic leader, a young dairy foreman is found dead. Ann and her sidekick Tim head up Operation White-tail, the criminal investigation of the community's brutal shepherds. Tim enters Arcadia as an undercover detective, exposing the mind control of their misogynistic...

Sandy Barrett's hiking escapades were usually uneventful and relaxing, until the day she risked her life saving a trapped seagull and tumbled down a 100 metre cliff. After tree branches miraculously broke her fall, her body lay battered on a rocky ledge. A greater horror threatened to torment her, having discovered she was a key witness to a murder.Will she have the resilience and determination to survive the daunting days that lie ahead, or is she to accept her fate to die alone—h...

MACK REED has dreams of giving up working as a shearing contractor to buy a high country station. Perhaps it's only a pipedream and how will he ever find that kind of money?When he moves to Glenorchy, a remote rural area in the Southern Alps, his luck changes—or is it divine intervention? He tries to form a relationship with his grandfather, Walter who is embittered by a longstanding feud between Mack's father, and himself. When he takes over Reed Station, a high country merino and...

Amber Raymond locks the door of the city medical clinic and sets off for a late-night shopping spree. Hurrying to catch the last ferry home to Gulf Harbour, she is accosted by a stranger in a dark and empty street. This ignites a full-blown investigation into organised corporate crime at her husband Kyle's factory that exposes its workers to a life-threatening product and dumps toxic waste.When Private Investigator Ann Grieves takes on the case, she expects it to be a walk in the p...

SAGA FICTIONUNSHAKABLE COURAGE—does Ruby have it?Ruby Preston embarked on a perilous, overland journey to her parents' charity, a safe house for trafficked children in Bangkok, where her senses were awakened. When she joined the team of workers at Rescue Net, she was unprepared for her co-worker, Julian Page to fall for her. Can their budding friendship survive the stresses and strains of their conflicting interests? Will he win her heart or fade into insig...