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September 2024

 

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

 

New For You

Staff List

New For You - Mystery & Thriller - September 2024

Fiction that keeps you guessing - find danger, killers, and unexpected twists in this selection of the newest mystery and thriller titles.

New in Mystery & Thriller

Staff List

New For You - True Crime - September 2024

Our selectors have hand-picked the top new additions to the collection for espionage, crime, murder, and everything in between.

New in True Crime
 

Ngaio Marsh Awards

Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel

The winner for the best New Zealand crime for 2025 has been announced. 

Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel

The winner for the best first novel prize in NZ's crime writing awards has been announced.

Read the winners and shortlist
 

Website

WORD Christchurch Festival 2024

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

Blog Post

True Stories of Death and Desperation: WORD Chch 2024

Jessie reports back on Steve Braunias' WORD Christchurch 2024 event: True Stories of Death and Desperation.

Blog Post

Bookshop Detectives and Ngaio Marsh Awards! WORD Chch 2024

Fee reports back on a double whammy - The Bookshop Detectives, followed by the Ngaio Marsh Interrogations. I mean Awards.

More WORD Christchurch reviews
 

New & Interesting

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

Twenty-seven minutes by Ashley Tate

For fans of Jane Harper and Celeste Ng, an elevated literary chilling tale. For those who like depth and prose, twists, and slow burning suspense.

 

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

On the outside they had the perfect life, on the inside it was the perfect lie.  A young nanny plunges to her death, or was she pushed?

 
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 / 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)
New True Crime
 
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