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For the first time ever, a New Zealand Police detective takes writers behind the scenes and gives the inside scoop on how it all works – the language they use, the duties they perform, a day in the life of a homicide and what it’s like to stare down the barrel of a gun.
Meet your new favorite detective…
Cozy charm joins Victorian mystery as scruffy sleuth Charlie Shilling teams up with brilliant doctor Amelia Florin to solve crime… and maybe catch a few feelings as well as some nasty crooks. New cozy mystery series with the cutest cinnamon-roll characters!
The third book in the “The Enchanted Gang” series.
Who knew a talking cat would be the least surprising thing about a midlife crisis? Jessica Lavender thought her life as a baker was bland, but her mother’s death changed everything. Inheriting her childhood home and her mom’s quirky little shop, she’s thrust back into the nosy town of Good Fortune—a place far stranger than she remembers.
An 1870 visit by Armed Constabulary Sergeant Patrick Kelly to the rugged Great Barrier Island turns into investigating a shipwreck, and a brush with pirates. Later in the Northern gumfields, Kelly finds himself alone facing a murderer, who tries to hunt him down and kill him.
In disgrace with his superiors, Sergeant Patrick Kelly, is not impressed to be put in charge of Tom, the baby elephant, accompanying Prince Alfred on a visit to New Zealand. However, when Fenians from the Thames goldfields decide to assassinate the Prince, Kelly finds himself in the thick of the action receiving some unexpected help from Tom.
Life Size Bites is a collection of short stories and flash fiction looking at a wide range of subjects. The first two stories in the collection, comprise the winning entries in the 2025 Te Tauihu Short Story Competition and the 2026 Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story Competition.
