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Ngaio nominees from New Zealand

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Have you heard of the Ngaio Marsh Awards, which celebrate the best of New Zealand crime fiction? Well, it’s an award system set up by crime-loving journalist Craig Sisterson and is now in its eight year. Sisterson is doing a great job promoting and heralding Kiwi…
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KindleReviews

NTN: Dead Lemons

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Written by Finn Bell — There’s only one slightly confusing thing about this self-published novel by Finn Bell. This is that the author has given his main character his own name. Why, we’re not sure, but the book’s definitely worth reading, and along the way you’ll…
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The Mistake by Grant Nicole

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Number Thirteen Press has embarked on a project to publish 13 quality crime novellas and short novels. The contributions to this list are being published consecutively on the 13th of the month between November 2014 and November 2015. Following Michael Young’s Of Blondes and Bullets,…
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Features

CIS: The best of Ngaio Marsh

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It might be because her name looks hard to pronounce – Ngaio is said nai-0h, though the Marsh part is easy enough. Or perhaps it’s her relatively small body of work – 32 novels is less than half Agatha Christie’s 66. Then again, maybe it’s…
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The Ngaio Marsh Award 2012 shortlist

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A few days ago we brought you the shortlists for Australia’s Ned Kelly Awards. Well, New Zealand too has an prize for its crime authors – The Ngaio Marsh Award. Instead of naming it after a local criminal, this gong takes its moniker from Dame…
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