HUNTING BLIND
Paddy Richardson
Penguin - NZ$28

As I said to Jim Mora yesterday on Radio NZ this is a cracker of a novel, running at more than 300 pages, a psycological thriller that starts in Wanaka in December, 1988 when a four year old girl goes missing from a picnic on the lake shore. She is never found.
Move forward 17 years to Dunedin where the elder sister of that little girl has graduated from medical school and is now a psychiatrist working at a clinic where a patient's revelations cause her to re-examine her sister's disappearance all those years before.

This is a real page turner from Dunedin-based writer Paddy Richardson who although she has two previous novels and two collections of short stories published, and is a former holder of the Burns Fellowship, does not have much of a profile on the NZ scene.
I reckon Hunting Blind will change that. It is a highly accomplished novel which deserves to be widely read.
And here is crime fiction specialist blogger Craig Sisterson on the subject of Hunting Blind.