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**Shortlisted for Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023**
*Shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards 2023*

''Tom Baragwanath''s provocative first novel is riveting and shocking'' The Times

''[A] magnetic debut . . . breathtakingly compelling'' Daily Mail

Masterton, New Zealand may be a small town, but its residents are certainly not united. Old resentments and the simmering tensions of race and culture divide the Maori and white inhabitants, with everyone keeping to their own patch of turf. But when local children start to go missing, vanishing between the cracks, accusations are hurled, and community relations reach boiling point.

Caught in the middle is Lorraine Henry. She works as a lowly records clerk at the police station amongst towering piles of paperwork, quietly making connections and remembering things that the cops would rather not. Solving cases is not part of her job, but when her great-nephew is the next to disappea

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**Shortlisted for Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023***Shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards 2023*''Tom Baragwanath''s provocative first novel is riveting and shocking''... Read more

    Publisher: John Murray Press
    Publication Date: 1/15/2024
    ISBN13: 9781399808118, 978-1399808118
    ISBN10: 1399808117

    Fiction , Crime & Thriller

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    **Shortlisted for Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023**
    *Shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards 2023*

    ''Tom Baragwanath''s provocative first novel is riveting and shocking'' The Times

    ''[A] magnetic debut . . . breathtakingly compelling'' Daily Mail

    Masterton, New Zealand may be a small town, but its residents are certainly not united. Old resentments and the simmering tensions of race and culture divide the Maori and white inhabitants, with everyone keeping to their own patch of turf. But when local children start to go missing, vanishing between the cracks, accusations are hurled, and community relations reach boiling point.

    Caught in the middle is Lorraine Henry. She works as a lowly records clerk at the police station amongst towering piles of paperwork, quietly making connections and remembering things that the cops would rather not. Solving cases is not part of her job, but when her great-nephew is the next to disappea

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