Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Sneak Peek: The Children’s Pond by Tina Shaw

NZ Book Council

Shortlisted for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel.

Jessica Pollard has moved to Turangi to be near her son Reuben who is in prison there. While working at a trout-fishing lodge on the Tongariro River, Jessica slips into a relationship with a handsome, charming Maori lawyer. When the body of his troubled niece Chantelle is found in the Children’s Pond, Jessica’s own past as a teenager in prison comes back to haunt her. What really happened to her all those years ago? And what is the connection with Chantelle’s death?
Click here to read an extract.

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