Author: M.H. Green Publisher: M.H.Green

Fresh from her success in her first murder trial at the Old Bailey, Penelope Lloyd-Hargreaves is persuaded to represent a senior Queen's Council who is in grave danger of being disbarred. Having accepted the case, she must call upon every ounce of expertise to achieve a satisfactory result. But is it enough? Will she prevail? And what of the request to take on a pupil? How will this fit in with her ambition to take silk?

April 2024

Author: Marie Connolly Publisher: Quentin Wilson Publishing

Criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle loves solving murders. The more complicated, the better. But when a professor of astronomy is found dead at Tekapo’s Mt John Observatory during its internationally-attended 50th anniversary conference celebrations and Detective Jack Simmons calls on Nellie to help with the police investigation, she soon realises that this is not your typical murder – and nor are these your usual suspects.

27 March 2024

Author: Paul Cleave. Publisher: Penguin NZ

He's a nice guy out to catch a copycat killer. The one copying himself. Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. He is not bothered by the reports of The Christchurch Carver, who - they say - murdered seven women. Joe knows the carver has killed only six. He knows that for a fact. And Joe is going to find that copycat killer, punish him for the one murder and then frame him for the rest.

5 March 2024

Author: Jenny Lynch. Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing

The psychic had a curious message for Helena. She said: 'You are not who you think you are.' 'The Secrets They Kept' is the story of a young woman's quest to discover the truth about her mother's unexplained death - and her own identity.

1 March 2024

Authors: Kirsty Johnston & James Hollings. Publisher: Massey University Press.

A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe.

09 November 2023

Author: Benedict Collins. Publisher: HarperCollins NZ.

With dry wit and biting insight, journalist Benedict Collins takes us inside the evolution of meth in New Zealand. From ram raids for pseudoephedrine to our own cooks and gangs 'breaking bad', a visit to the Golden Triangle of meth production in South-East Asia, multimillion-dollar busts, and a moral panic that seeded a meth-testing scandal.

01 November 2023

Author: Jared Savage. Publisher: HarperCollins New Zealand.

The much anticipated follow-up to Jared Savage’s bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money.

04 October 2023

Author: David White with Angus Gillies. Publisher: Upstart Press.

Far North is the true story of one of New Zealand's biggest ever drugs bust and how those responsible were foiled by the sleuthing skills of Ahipara's good-hearted locals - and a series of unbelievable faux-pas by the drug-smugglers. They say fact is stranger than fiction and in this case it is. Stranger, and funnier. It's a story like no other.

10 August 2023

Author: Chris Stuart. Publisher: Original Sin Press.

From Christ Stuart, the New Zealand award-winning author of For Reasons of Their Own, comes her second page-turning crime thriller The Glasgow Smile.

31 May 2023

Author: Nick Davies. Publisher: YBK Publishers.

The debut sunset-noir novel El Flamingo from Kiwi actor-turned-writer Nick Davies sweeps readers into a dangerous world of Latin-American espionage.

16 March 2023

Author: Renée. Publisher: Cuba Press.

Puti Derrell likes running at midnight. During lockdown it was safe but now lockdown is over and Porohiwi doesn’t feel safe anymore – especially when she discovers her estranged grandfather has been murdered and left with a Judas mask on his face. Blood Matters is the new crime novel from Renée.

11 November 2022

Author: Paul Cleave. Publisher: Upstart Press.

As author Paul Cleave puts it in this book’s acknowledgements “making bad things happen” is his pièce de résistance and, by that measure, The Pain Tourist is an unqualified success.

10 November 2022

Author: John Evan Harris. Publisher: Roiall Emerald.

Inspired by the notorious Maungatapu Murders of 1866, The Physician’s Gun is an action-packed historical novel - a gripping tale of murder and greed aimed - at young people ages 11+.

25 October 2022

Author: Roger Simpson. Publisher: Simon & Schuster.

Based on the hugely successful Channel 9 drama series starring Rebecca Gibney as forensic psychologist Dr Jane Halifax, whose criminal profiling, 20 years later, might be the only way to track down Australia's most dangerous serial killer yet.

05 October 2022

Author: Scott Bainbridge. Publisher: David Bateman Ltd.

The Fix is the full story of the elaborate scam, which uncovered collusion with a high-powered organised crime group with links to the corrupt Sydney CIB, and shows how three Auckland detectives never gave up, playing cat and mouse around the world for two years to bring the offenders to justice.

10 October 2022

Author: Fiona Sussman. Publisher: David Bateman Ltd.

The Doctor's Wife is an enthralling page-turner that sees award-winning author Fiona Sussman return to a genre of which she is master - crime fiction.

10 October 2022

Author: J P Pomare. Publisher: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand.

A private investigator returns to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in J P Pomare’s latest stunning literary crime thriller.

27 July 2022

Author: Simon Lendrum. Publisher: Upstart Press.

It seemed a simple request. ”Can you find my daughter who has run away?” But for professional gambler O’Malley, life isn’t that simple. The Slow Roll is a brilliantly written and intriguing debut crime novel set in Auckland.

14 July 2022

Author: Nikki Crutchley. Publisher: HarperCollins.

A compulsively readable suspense thriller from Ngaio Marsh Award shortlisted author, Nikki Crutchley, which will keep you guessing and reading up until late into the night.

November 2021 release

Authors: Elizabeth Stanley; Trevor Bradley; Sara Monod de Froidville. Publisher: Auckland University Press.

The first handbook of New Zealand criminology, for students and practitioners.

14 October 2021 release