20 Feb 2022

Murder in the Far North. Call DI Bradshaw

From Standing Room Only, 2:26 pm on 20 February 2022
Catherine Lea

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Aotearoa's latest literary sleuth, D.I. Nyree Bradshaw is faced by a mystifying and culturally challenging case in Catherine Lea's thriller The Water's Dead.

The DI and her team are in a race against time to solve the murder of a young Māori woman whose body is found dumped in volcanic rock pool by passing tourists tourists, as well as find a missing diabetic child.

The story's set in the Far North where Catherine now lives. As she tells Lynn Freeman, she's previously written thrillers set in the USA.

The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea's is published by Breaklight Press