This intriguing novel takes you down the back streets and sewer rivers of Auckland in the 1850s to uncover a savage triple murder. It also leads you into the dazzling ballrooms and past the closed curtains of respectability to reveal a tender love story. And it introduces you to the debating chamber and political machinations of New Zealand's first representative Parliament. Bringing the era and its people back to life, Michael Wall mixes fiction in with fact and serves up a compulsive, brilliantly realised story that will keep you guessing right up to the last page.
This intriguing novel takes you down the back streets and sewer rivers of Auckland in the 1850s to uncover a savage triple murder. It also leads you into the dazzling ballrooms and past the closed curtains of respectability to reveal a tender love story. And it introduces you to the debating chamber and political machinations of New Zealand's first representative Parliament. Bringing the era and its people back to life, Michael Wall mixes fiction in with fact and serves up a compulsive, brilliantly realised story that will keep you guessing right up to the last page.