Looking for a new book? These recent releases span everything from a Liane Moriarty page-turner to lighthouse women. Local reads include a chilling tale of colonial New Zealand, a look at Aotearoa’s native bees, and an in-depth history of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere. These are NZ Booklovers ’ favourite reads from the past month.
Fascinating fiction The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves, $38, Pan Macmillan DI Vera Stanhope has appeared in many of Ann Cleeves’ crime novels and the popular screen ITV screen adaptations, and she returns in this new mystery. Outside a care home for troubled teens, a young man is found dead, and 14-year-old resident Chloe is missing. The investigation takes Vera and her team to the Three Dark Wives Stones in the wild Northumbrian countryside.
Atmospheric and gripping..
