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The unforgettable detective duo from The Doctor's Wife are back, and this time the stakes are even higher.

When DS Ramesh Bandara is asked to head up a homicide investigation in a small New Zealand beachside town, he has no idea he's stumbled onto something much bigger. With little to…

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A previous NZ Booklovers Award winner, Fiona Sussman’s latest crime novel is yet again first-rate. DS Ramesh Bandara heads up a homicide investigation with few leads. The victim was found strangled at a building site in coastal Mangawhai, with little for them to work with. But then his colleague Hilary Stark spots surprising parallels with a case she worked on years before, the murder of a clinical psychologist. When they discover the victim in Mangawhai was on the same decade-old reality dating TV series as the clinical psychologist, the investigations seem linked.
It is not long before Bandara and Stark…

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