Vanda Symon

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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When the body of a young mother is found on the banks of New Zealand's Mataura River, young female police constable Sam Shephard begins an investigation, with horrifying and very personal implications. Book one in an addictive, atmospheric new series...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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Chaos reigns in the sleepy village of Aramoana when shipping containers wash up on the beach and are looted. Detective Constable Sam Shephard knows first-hand the desperation of the scavengers - she's got the scars to prove it. Plus a skull in the sa...

• Jan-2022
• / Police Procedural
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A stressed, middle-aged man picks up a teenage escort and commits an unspeakable crime, unaware that a homeless man â€" her only real friend â€" will do anything to find her. A shocking, race-against-the-clock, standalone thriller from the Queen of N...

• Feb-2023
• / Mystery
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A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again … Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller…`...

• Aug-2024
• / Police Procedural
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Fresh from maternity leave, Dunedin detective Sam Shephard investigates the unsolved murder of a highly esteemed church minister … with potentially deadly consequences. New Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a page-turning, rivet...

• Jul-2026
• / Mystery
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A killer is hunting Auckland???s homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people. Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland???among the forgotten and invisible. But now someone is hunting the homeless, killing them one by...