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Crimechurch
Life in the safe suburbs of Christchurch isn't dangerous enough for Marty. He needs excitement, and goes looking for it in punk, protest, politics and crackpipes. Marty soon finds Mona, a teenage runaway living in a flophouse of skinheads and goths. The two live for drugs and dodgy deals, but they are minnows compared to savage siblings Jade and Shayna. Meanwhile, war has broken out among the bikers Marty and Mona depend on for their daily fix. Fuelling the fight is 'King Kong' Chong, a thug determined to be Number One in the 0h-3. Swimming between the sharks is Winston, Marty's baby brother, who has big plans. When Winston gets in over his head, it's up to Marty to try and pull him out of a neo-Nazi nightmare before their family becomes a target.
Bloodalcohol
From the author of The Devil Took Her comes a collection of ten fresh tales of horror. A South Island road trip turns murderous as a dangerous drifter smells a secret in her co-dependent pal. Millionaire Kiwi conservationists learn too late how little Mother Nature cares for mankind. A Far North teen confronts the terrifying truth about why Mum separated from Dad years ago. In his most powerful collection yet, Botur challenges you to look at life through the lens of horror. Struggling to bond with a savage stepchild, losing your son to a gang of ghostly boys, doing desperate things to get famous, battling bullies, surviving school, chasing elite status in the medical world, and getting good with God. With a unique flavour of New Zealand, the stories in BLOODALCOHOL are bittersweet, horrifying, tender – and astonishingly original.
Crimechurch
Life in the safe suburbs of Christchurch isn't dangerous enough for Marty. He needs excitement, and goes looking for it in punk, protest, politics and crackpipes. Marty soon finds Mona, a teenage runaway living in a flophouse of skinheads and goths. The two live for drugs and dodgy deals, but they are minnows compared to savage siblings Jade and Shayna. Meanwhile, war has broken out among the bikers Marty and Mona depend on for their daily fix. Fuelling the fight is 'King Kong' Chong, a thug determined to be Number One in the 0h-3. Swimming between the sharks is Winston, Marty's baby brother, who has big plans. When Winston gets in over his head, it's up to Marty to try and pull him out of a neo-Nazi nightmare before their family becomes a target. “Breathtaking, relentless, unapologetic... It's a wild, wild, wild ride.” - Australia & NZ Crime Fiction Reviews
True?
Sixteen stories of Aussie, apps, poets, parole, trysts, travel, rehab, refugees, jail, journos, strippers, celebs, drugs and more drugs.
Moneyland
12 friends. 12 million bucks. 12 months. No food. No adults. No backing out. It’s 2037, and humans worldwide are losing their jobs to artificial intelligence. Everyone needs money to survive, including Eden Shepherd, who agrees to spend a year inside a biodome experiment with 11 other kids from her high school to make money for her family. They are each paid one million dollars in cash to stay inside the dome for 365 days. The kids plan to party away the year in Lockdownland and it starts with a bang. The problem is that there's no supermarket, no electricity, and supplies are limited. There is no panic button they could use to escape. As the group becomes more and more divided, Eden must tap into her inner strength and sharp wit. But does she have what it takes to protect herself and survive?
Lowlife
A wild child finds settling down is suicide. An old man follows the girl of his dreams. Two mates waste a decade one-upping each other. A bogan bothers his way into the history books. Damaged daddies, angry young men, struggling saints, a has-been with a harem, a regretful gangsta... and a godfather grandmother. Here's the fourth folio of striking stories by NZ writer Michael Botur.
Payback
A tribe of brave teens. A dome filled with enemies. And a machine watching humankind destroy itself. Freed from prison in 2041, Eden Shepherd is ready to return to her family and work out what went wrong in Moneyland. Mum is here to help – but Eden’s dad has disappeared, leaving a trail of questions about his role in the rise of an all-powerful artificial intelligence. As Eden and her mum venture into an urban wasteland to try find Dad, the duo are ambushed by a militia led by a man intent on killing Eden – before a whole new biodome descends upon the hapless humans. Eden finds herself trapped and fighting for her life with a tribe of brave teen guerillas who occupy an abandoned shopping mall – until devastating secrets emerge about the tribe’s leader as Eden starts to lose her chance at payback, her family – and her life.
Buenos Aires Triad
A searing portrait of small-time crooks and immigrant gangs in Argentina's capital... When an armed robber shoots a British tourist in Buenos Aires, Lucas's life changes forever. A humble watch-seller moonlighting for the gang behind the robbery, he wants to go straight but instead gets pulled into extortion work for the Xiezhi Triad.
Taking the Plunge
Sometimes all you need is a leap of faith... When her husband's recent infidelities are exposed, Kate Hensley does what any sensible woman would; she kicks him out of the house and pursues a younger man. Could her snowboarding instructor, Evan Randall — blue-eyed, blonde, and gorgeous — be the solution to her problems? If only love were that simple. Gossip travels fast in the high-country, and while Kate's new BFF supports her romantic endeavours, it seems no one else does. With opposition to her amorous adventure mounting, Kate learns that Newton's third law applies to love as it does to motion, and she must decide whether the price of being true to herself is one she's prepared to pay...
Criminal
The way we see and understand crime falls into two types of story that, in essence, have been told and retold many times throughout human history - in fiction, as in fact. Criminality is either a selfish choice, an aberration; or a forced choice, the product of social factors. These two stories continue to dominate both our views of and responses to crime. And, says Tom Gash, they are completely wrong. In seeking to dispel the myths that surround and inform our views of crime, Criminal argues that our obsession with 'big arguments' about crime's causes can lead us to mistake individual cases as proof of universal rules. How, he asks, can we suspend our knee-jerk reactions, and begin to understand crime for what it is: as a risk that can be managed and reduced.
