2025 Shortlist Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel
Criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle loves solving murders. The more complicated, the better. But when a professor of astronomy is found dead at Tekapo’s Mt John Observatory during its internationally-attended 50th anniversary conference celebrations and Detective Jack Simmons calls on Nellie to help with the police investigation, she soon realises that this is not your typical murder – and nor are these your usual suspects. As Nellie and Jack venture into the Dark Sky Reserve in Aotearoa New Zealand’s beautiful Mackenzie Country, they uncover a universe of rivalries, infidelities and emotional turmoil that pushes people to the edge. International intrigue and a tangle of motives unfold against a glittering backdrop of bright stars in this gripping tale of crime and passion, and as Nellie knows only too well, nothing in the world of academia is straightforward…
ISBN: 9781991103314
Publication date: 26/03/2024
Price: $37.99
RRP: $37.99
Format: Paperback
Available stock: 10
Publishing status: Active
Author: Connolly, Marie
Series: Nellie Prayle Mystery
Imprint: Quentin Wilson Publishing
