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August 2024

 

Haere mai, welcome to our True Crime / Mystery newsletter. Take a walk on the dark side and discover crimes both real and fictional.

 

Staff List

New For You - Mystery & Thriller - August 2024

Stories that keep you guessing - you'll find danger, killers, and unexpected twists in our picks of the newest mystery and thriller titles.

New in Mystery & Thriller
 

Video

Unconscious Bias on LinkedIn Learning

In this course, diversity expert Stacey Gordon Stacey explores the most common forms of unconscious bias and its implications.

Website

WORD Christchurch Festival 2024

Revisit WORD Christchurch 2024 - read our event reports, and find works by WORD writers in our collection.

True crime fans! You might like:

  • True Stories of Death and Desperation: Steve Braunias in conversation with Press journalist Philip Matthews, Friday 30 August 12.30pm to 1.30pm
  • Aotearoa: A Gangster’s Paradise? Journalists Jared Savage and Benedict Collins join Dr Jarrod Gilbert in conversation, Saturday 31 August 4pm to 5pm.
More about WORD Christchurch

New & Interesting

Our selector picks the best new and upcoming mysteries and true crime books. Get in first!

Mystery

Agnes Sharpe and the trip of a lifetime by Leonie Swann

For fans of The Thursday Murder Club, Agnes Sharp and her friends are off on a trip of a lifetime but come face to face with a killer.

When we were silent by Fiona McPhillips

A dark secret, elite private school, 30 years later will the shocking dark past be revealed? For those who love dark academia thrillers.

True Crime

There Is No Ethan How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

Catfishing, internet predators, intense emotional webs, the thrilling tale of uncovering who Ethan is. Rage.

Clay and Bones My Life as An FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

A memoir of a forensic sculptor, gritty, charred, honest and toxic. Deeply interesting.

 

Blog Post

The Brief Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader

Life Sentence by Mark Bowden explores the West Baltimore drug world, a particularly dangerous and violent gang, and how they were caught.

 

True Crime / Murder

"Always Home, Always Homesick" by Kent, Hannah, 1985-
"Behind the Hill" by Robilliard, Robin, 1934-
"Always Home, Always Homesick" by Kent, Hannah, 1985-
"Black Tunnel White Magic" by Jackson, Rick (Retired detective)
"Always Home, Always Homesick" by Kent, Hannah, 1985-
"Blood in the Water" by Sherman, Casey, 1969-
"Behind the Hill" by Robilliard, Robin, 1934-
"Black Tunnel White Magic" by Jackson, Rick (Retired detective)
 
 
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