Delighted that The Quaker has made the longlist for the 2019 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best NZ Crime Novel. It's keeping some stellar company, alongside books by likes of Stella Duffy, Fiona Kidman, Nikki Crutchley, JP Pomare, Ben Sanders and others. Great to see NZ crime fiction in such rude health. Congrats to all on the list... https://www.noted.co.nz/culture/books/ngaio-marsh-awards-2019-longlist-prize/ … [Read more...]

If you were careless enough to miss the 2019 Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival, fear not: you can now listen to podcasts of the sessions, including my own chat with the great Steve Braunias... https://oar.org.nz/dwrf2019/ … [Read more...]

Absolutely thrilled and delighted that The Quaker has been shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for 2019. It's an honour and privilege to share the shortlist with writers of the calibre of Val McDermid, Mick Herron, Khurrum Rahman, Steve Cavanagh and Belinda Bauer. It also means that I'll be heading back to the Harrogate Festival this July. Maybe see you there if you're in town! https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/uncategorized/shortlist-for-theakston-old-peculier-crime-novel-of-the-year-announced/ … [Read more...]

On Friday 10 May I'm appearing at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival in their 'Murder with McIlvanney' event, chaired by the great Steve Braunias (author of Kiwi true crime classic, The Scene of the Crime). the event takes place at 12 noon in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Come along if you're in the area... http://www.dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz/murder-with-mcilvanney.html … [Read more...]