**Shortlisted for Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023***Shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards 2023***'Tom Baragwanath's provocative first novel is riveting and shocking' The Times'[A] magnetic debut . . . breathtakingly compelling' Daily Mail**Masterton, New Zealand may be a small town, but its residents are certainly not united. Old resentments and the simmering tensions of race and culture divide the Maori and white inhabitants, with e...

When brilliant young student Jessica Mowbrie is left in a coma after being abandoned in a remote patch of New Zealand bush, the local Masterton police don't have a clue what happened. Isolated and under-resourced, the detectives struggle even to begin piecing it together.Police records clerk Lorraine Henry will not accept that Jessie simply had a lucky escape. She thinks whoever hurt her needs to be hunted down, and worries that her employers are a bit hopeless.As Jessie's ...

This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride and a beautifully written, acutely observed portrait of a community.How far would you go to keep your family safe?Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records clerk at the Masterton police station. But when children start going missing in her small town, Lo can't help but pay attention. After all, sh...

The prize-winning literary crime debut from young New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath.**Shortlisted for Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023***Shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards 2023*'Tom Baragwanath's provocative first novel is riveting and shocking' The Times'[A] magnetic debut . . . breathtakingly compelling' Daily MailMasterton, New Zealand may be a small ...

This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride and a beautifully written, acutely observed portrait of a community.How far would you go to keep your family safe?Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records clerk at the Masterton police station. But when children start going missing in her small town, Lo can't help but pay attention. After all, sh...