THE CHINESE PROVERB
Hunter Grant series book #1
Army veteran Hunter Grant thought he had left war behind in Afghanistan – a conflict that left him with physical and psychological scars. But finding an unconscious girl in the Northland bush and gradually untangling her complex story involves him in a war of a different kind in his own country.
Reader review: “Suspense fuels this tightly written and fast paced New Zealand thriller that grips from the beginning.”
ONE SINGLE THING
Hunter Grant book #2
Journalist Hope Barber disappears two weeks after returning to New Zealand from an assignment in Pakistan, leaving her front door open and her bag and phone inside. The police are tight-lipped about their reluctance to act, and Hunter Grant and Dao agree to help Hope’s brother Noah find her. Details about Hope’s time in Pakistan gradually emerge but only raise more questions.
Was Hope under surveillance? Was she linked to terrorists? And who is the man Hope called her stalker? Hunter, who in The Chinese Proverb used his front-line Army experience to save Dao, finds himself in unknown territory. When a key person from Dao’s past life in captivity turns up, things reach crisis point and Hunter once again takes matters of justice and retribution into his own hands.
FOLDED
Hunter Grant book #3
Notes asking for help folded into tiny origami shapes and found outside a city apartment building, a physics textbook with tiny writing between the lines and a woman who abruptly resigns and disappears. Are the notes asking for help real or is it a game? Hunter Grant, ex-army and with a pragmatic view of justice, reluctantly agrees to help find the missing woman. A high-powered lawyer arrives from the US, and shortly after his meeting with Hunter and Dao a “cease and desist” letter arrives from the Cayman Islands. Inspector Bakker (a woman, who in Hunter’s words “looks as if she would be useful in a brawl, provided she was on your side”) takes instant exception to his involvement and threatens to arrest him for interfering in an investigation. Dao sets out alone on a dangerous mission, driven by a compulsive need to find out what has happened to the girl who wrote the notes, and Hunter looks death in the face when he decides to risk everything to put an end to the Darknet forces that threaten their lives.
THE SHADOW BROKER
In 2026 individual freedoms are severely curtailed, and state surveillance is everywhere. State Security has a Watch List, and being on it means that nothing you do or say escapes the authorities, but does the Kill List really exist? And if it does, how would you know if you were on it? Coded messages on a found burner phone, top-level government corruption and a shadowy mastermind who calls himself The Broker. In this climate of state control, three unlikely friends start quietly looking for connections and set in motion a deadly game of hide and seek that will change their lives forever. Trying to uncover the truth means risking your life, and nothing is more dangerous than searching for evidence of corruption on the highest level of government.
RUNNING TOWARDS DANGER
When Karen’s flat-mate Nick is executed in a drive-by shooting right in front of her her life is turned upside-down. Everything she thought she knew about him turns out to be a lie. She becomes a suspect in the police investigation, and criminals think she knows where Nick has hidden a large sum of money. When her life is threatened she decides to leave Auckland and disappear. Karen becomes Cara and creates an anonymous existence in a small community in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. She changes her appearance, severs all links to her past and adopts a cash-based way of life that leaves no electronic traces.
THE GIRL WHO LIVED TWICE
What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that time had rewound exactly a year? Would you revisit your past mistakes and try to do better? Would you try to get revenge on those who had wronged you? Or would you use what you knew to get rich? When Mia finds herself in her own past, she must decide how best to use her pre-knowledge of one year’s worth of events and personal issues. But when she decides to act, her story is leaked to the press resulting in unexpected consequences and a level of danger she had not foreseen.
