Best of 2024: Aotearoa NZ crime and thriller titles

Have a browse of our Librarian's Choice selection of Aotearoa / New Zealand crime and thriller titles for 2024! Our picks range across a number of sub-genres, from cosy crime to gritty realistic novels, and show that the renaissance of crime and thriller writing in Aotearoa continues apace. Enjoy!

Updated December 15, 2024
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No one will know : a novel
Carlyle, Rose
Paper Book
Named best of the month by New York Post! A deliciously twisty and suspenseful novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl in the Mirror, about a desperate young woman and the manipulative wealthy couple who will stop at nothing to ensure their worst nightmare...
Leave the Girls Behind : A Novel
Bublitz, Jacqueline.
Paper Book
The acclaimed author of the "tour de force" (The New York Times Book Review) Before You Knew My Name returns with a fresh suspense novel about a woman haunted by a serial killer and the ghosts he left behind. Ruth-Ann Baker is a college dropout, a bartender--and an...
Return to Blood : A Hana Westerman Thriller
Bennett, Michael.
Paper Book
From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Maori detective Hana Westerman, in which the discovery of human bones in the dunes of New Zealand upends a long-ago murder conviction After the perils of a case that landed much too close to...
Paper Cage : A Novel
Baragwanath, Tom
Paper Book
This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride and a beautifully written, acutely observed portrait of a community. How far would you go to keep your family safe? Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep...
The call
Strawhan, Gavin
Paper Book
Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023
Sarah = Sarah, plain and tall
MacLachlan, Patricia
Paper Book
Orientalism; Islamic architecture; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; history; 19th century; 21st century.

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