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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

Staff List

Redwood Reads July 2026

What the library staff and Book Group members have been reading and recommending this month.

Event

Workshop: Writing about Artefacts: WORD Christchurch

Sep 6th | 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Tūranga

Book a workshop with Heather McQuillan and use fabulous artefacts as writing prompts. Create new stories and poems. Ages 11 and over.

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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

"The 10:12" by Maloney, Anna
"All Them Dogs" by White, Djamel
"Adrift" by Dean, Will (Novelist)
"Anatomy of An Alibi" by Elston, Ashley
"All the Little Houses" by Cobb, May, 1973-
"The Anniversary" by Finlay, Alex, pseud
"All Them Dogs" by White, Djamel
"Anatomy of An Alibi" by Elston, Ashley
New thrillers
 

New True Crime

"Influencers Who Kill" by Salters, Madison
"The Blood Says Otherwise : Murder, Forensics and Hidden Truths" by Miller, Ruben (Forensic scientist)
"True Crime Biographies" by Stanton, T.
"London Falling" by Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
"The Mushroom Murders" by Haddrick, Greg
"London Falling" by Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
"The Blood Says Otherwise : Murder, Forensics and Hidden Truths" by Miller, Ruben (Forensic scientist)
"London Falling" by Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
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
 

Staff List

Redwood Reads July 2026

What the library staff and Book Group members have been reading and recommending this month.

 
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