HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand announces it will publish the next book by multi-award winning author/journalist Steve Braunias.

In The Scene of the Crime, Braunias delves deep into some of the more extraordinary criminal cases of recent years, including the Mark Lundy re-trail and the trials of Antonie Dixon and Rolf Harris.  In the same inimitable style that made his New Zealand Post Book Award-winning work, Civilisation, and his most recent work, Madmen, such stunning reads, Braunias’ new book promises to reveal a side of society and life that is at once gothic, shocking and oddly ordinary. 

“The question that very often most interests me in court is: where?” he writes. “It’s impossible and pointless to try to put yourself in the mind of a killer, but the setting takes you to the scene of the crime, shows you something about New Zealand. It’s not the dark underbelly; it’s the dark surface, in plain sight, the road most travelled.”

Adding to the many accolades he has received, Braunias was presented with the Nigel Cox Award in recognition of excellent in writing by Unity Books at the Auckland Writers Festival on Saturday 16 May.  In presenting the award, Nigel Cox’s widow Susannah Andrew said ‘the word Braunias has become a byline for brilliant totally bipartisan reporting.’

The Scene of the Crime will be published by Fourth Estate an imprint of HarperCollins in November 2015.