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Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop was demoted to Sergeant due to
insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of 17
year old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka
is also embroiled in a very personal mystery. A freelance journalist has
stumbled across information that Ihaka's father Jimmy, a trade union firebrand
and renegade Marxist, didn't die of natural causes. The stories weave
themselves into an exciting climax in an atmosphere of political manoeuvring
and intrigue surrounding the USA's confrontation with New Zealand over its
anti-nuclear stance. Fallout is by
Paul Thomas and is due to be published in March 2015.
Tin Sky is by Ben Pastor and is due to
be published in April 2015. Ukraine,
1943. Having barely escaped the inferno of Stalingrad, Major Martin Bora is
still serving on the Russian front as a German counterintelligence officer. At
a time when weariness, disillusionment, and battle fatigue are a soldier's
daily fare, Bora seems to be one of the few whose sanity is not marred by the
horrors of war. Two Russian generals in his custody die within twenty-four
hours of each other. Everything appears to exclude the likelihood of foul play,
but Bora begins an investigation, a stubborn attempt to solve a mystery that
will come much too close for comfort.
The novel is set in the Pantanal,the Brazilian lowlands
bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday on the banks of the Paraguay River, the
narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small ‘plane. He finds a kilo of
cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack which he pockets . Thus begins a long
slide into corruption. When the crash site is located several days later, the
pilot's body is missing. Our hero gets involved in a busted cocaine deal and
ends up owing a Bolivian drug gang so much money that blackmailing the wealthy
family of the dead pilot seems to be the only way out. The family secretly
agrees to pay serious money to recover the body of their son. Our hero doesn't
have the pilot's body so someone else's will do. Or so he thinks. The Body Snatcher is by Patricia Mello and is
due to be published in June 2015.
Behind
God’s Back is by Harri Nykanen and s due to be published in January 2015. There
are two Jewish cops in all of Helsinki. One of them, Ariel Kafka, a lieutenant
in the Violent Crime Unit, identifies himself as a policeman first, then a
Finn, and lastly a Jew. Kafka is a religiously non-observant 40-something
bachelor who is such a stubborn, dedicated policeman that he's willing to risk
his career to get an answer. Murky circumstances surround his investigation of
a Jewish businessman's murder. Neo-Nazi violence, intergenerational intrigue,
shady loans – predictable lines of investigation lead to unpredictable
culprits. But a second killing strikes closer to home, and the Finnish Security
Police come knocking. The tentacles of Israeli politics and Mossad reach
surprisingly far, once again wrapping Kafka in their sticky embrace.
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