![]() ![]() ![]() "The offender was arrested a week later after scarpering out of the city to the rural area of the province. One of the boys died as a result of the attack. "A young offender broken into a house in the early hours of the morning and randomly bludgeoned two small boys at the address and attempted to bludgeon the father. Ross Pinkham wrote, "I was O/C of a police investigation into a murder in a provincial city in 1991. He told a horrific story but as it continued it took an unexpected twist. Pauline Douglas of Dunedin waxed lyrical on folk hero George Wilder, the celebrated prison escaper supposedly with a heart of gold: "Finally paroled in 1969, George faded into folklore, but his heinous crimes amounted largely to car conversion and petty theft, not a ram raid or violent physical assault in sight."īut the winner of the contest is a reader who had first-hand experience of the subject of parole. Many readers put on their tight Tory hat and moaned about soft sentences. One of the subjects of Harris's tough-cop novel is parole and so readers were asked to share a story or an insight on the subject. The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Brauniasġ Pet by Catherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $38)īravo to Catherine Chidgey, but anyway here are the results from the past fortnight's free book giveaways.Ī fortnight ago a free copy of new crime novel Double Jeopardy by Stef Harris (Quentin Wilson Publishing, $37.50) was up for grabs and last week two crime novels in the Matakana Series by Madeleine Eskedahl, Blood on Vines and Rings on Water (both published by Squabbling Sparrows Press, $34.95) were up for grabs.įirst to Double Jeopardy. ReadingRoom This week’s bestselling books ![]()
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