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May 2025

 

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

 

Blog Post

Michael Bennett & Dervla McTiernan at Tūranga: Tues 13 May

WORD Christchurch hosts two authors who are HUGE in crime writing. Book your tickets; it's on at Tūranga on Tuesday 13 May, 6pm to 7pm.

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An evening with Jennifer Palgrave

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.

Video

Excel Essential Training on LinkedIn Learning

Get up to speed with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage & analyse data in Microsoft Excel.

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Staff List

New For You - Mystery & Thriller - May 2025

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

New For You - Mystery/Thriller
 

New titles

New mysteries
 

New Thrillers

"59 Minutes" by Seddon, Holly
"The Ascent" by Buccola, Allison
"Agaw-anino" by Pingol, Erik Guzman
"Baby Teeth" by Silvani, Celia
"All We Trust" by Galloway, Gregory
"Bad Blood" by Hornsley, Sarah
"The Ascent" by Buccola, Allison
"Baby Teeth" by Silvani, Celia
New thrillers
 

New True Crime

"Whack Job" by James, Rachel McCarthy
"This House of Grief" by Garner, Helen, 1942-
"The Mushroom Tapes" by Garner, Helen, 1942-
"Polkinghorne" by Braunias, Steve, 1960-
"The First Murderer I Ever Met" by Dapin, Mark, 1963-
"The Idaho Four" by Patterson, James, 1947-
"This House of Grief" by Garner, Helen, 1942-
"Polkinghorne" by Braunias, Steve, 1960-
New True Crime
 

Coming soon

I found a body by Becky Brynolf

An influencer finds a dead body and broadcasts it to the world, things don’t go as expected…

 

Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold

The wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen - a page-turning retelling of the historical true-crime story of infamous murderer Dr Crippen, brought to justice by an extraordinary group of women.

 

Recommended reads

Staff List

Mystery - Dark Academia

Expect unreliable narrators, secret societies, toxic relationships and plenty of twists and turns in these gripping dark academia novels.

Staff List

Non-fiction - Espionage

Explore the history of espionage, enjoy its great stories and understand the role it plays in the world today.

More recommended mysteries
More recommended true crime
 

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.

 
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