Auckland Council Libraries: Yeah Noir: crime novels by Aotearoa authors

Yeah Noir: crime novels by Aotearoa authors

You’ve read Nordic Noir, Tartan Noir - how about Yeah Noir? Try out these homegrown murder mysteries by New Zealand crime writers, and visit our YouTube channel to watch the We Read Auckland crime authors’ panel featuring Nalini Singh, Rose Carlyle and Madeleine Eskedahl.

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Quiet in her bones

Nalini Singh

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When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace, everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife tired of her wealthy husband. But now her bones have turned up in Auckland's Waitākere ranges... Signh's 'A Madness of Sunshine' also came out in 2020.

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Blood on vines

Madeleine Eskedahl

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A Martinborough ex-wine maker is murdered. The precise planning and execution by the unknown assailant begins a series of vile attacks, as the action shifts north to the lush vineyards of Matakana.

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The girl in the mirror

Rose Carlyle

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High seas, high stakes, and Hollywood's on board for the movie! Identical twins Iris and Summer are sailing the family yacht to the Seychelles, but in the Indian Ocean, everything changes. How far will Summer go to get the life she's dreamed about?

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Cold Wallet

Rosy Fenwicke

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An exciting thought-provoking thriller set in Auckland, Fiji and Corfu, and in the world of cryptocurrency. Newly widowed Jess must make sense of events and her husband's financial legacy in a fight to save her reputation and her future.

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The devils you know

Ben Sanders

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Acclaimed Auckland author Sanders stays Stateside for his latest thriller but switches coasts. Vincent lucks into a seemingly dream civilian job as head of security for a supermarket mogul but soon finds sunny Santa Barbara is full of dark talent.

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Folded

Tina Clough

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Clough's third following Hunter Grant and Dao who first featured in The Chinese Proverb . Notes folded into origami shapes found outside an apartment building, a textbook with messages between the lines and a woman who resigns and then disappears...

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The quiet people

Paul Cleave

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Another page-turning read set in Christchurch from Paul Cleave. When a successful crime-writing couple’s 7-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public wonder if they are trying to show how to commit the perfect crime.

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The bones remember

Sara E. Johnson

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Alexa Glock's first case as a private forensic investigator seems straightforward until she realises the bullet lodged in a victim's ​skull was not self-inflicted and a second shark-ravaged body washes up on Ringaringa Beach. Also on OverDrive/Libby.

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Caught between

Jeannie. author. McLean

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Murders, money laundering, and kidnapping... Jasmine Dunn's body is washed up in Auckland. Then her mother's body appears on a deserted beach. Known to both and to the police after the death of her own mother a year ago, Tova is the main suspect.

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The murder club

Nikki Crutchley

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When the first letter arrives saying that 'tonight it begins', journalist Miller Hatcher ignores it. But then the body of a murdered woman is discovered, strangled, a scarf around her neck. This is only the beginning for the small town of Lentford.

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Dark empire

John Horrocks

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When Detective Sergeant Tom Guthrie investigates the drowning of a prisoner from Somes Island, he finds himself up against the head of Wellington's criminal underworld, Harry Kember, last seen in Katherine Mansfield's famous story 'At the Bay'.

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In the Clearing

J. P. Pomare

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Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing. She knows what to do to please her elders, and how to make sure community life remains happy and calm. That is, until a new young girl joins the group. A cult thriller with suspense to burn.

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The Manger, the Mikdash and the Mosque

David McGill

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1975. Former detective and spy-catcher Dan Delaney and his West Auckland family are on a visit to the Holy Land which goes horribly wrong due to a plot to incite conflict between three great religions in Jerusalem. McGill's fifth Delaney mystery.

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For reasons of their own

Chris Stuart

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Can the past ever be left behind? Ask flawed Melbourne detective Robbie Grey, a former refugee and a government desperate to misuse a dead body to reshape Australia's security policy.

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