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Ice Shroud
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When a woman's body is discovered frozen in the ice of a river near the alpine resort of Queenstown, Detective Sergeant Malcolm Buchan faces both a mystery and a moral dilemma. The identity of the nude woman is critical to the motives and manner of
her murder, and Buchan is personally involved. So are a number of locals, from ski bums to multi-millionaire businessman.
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Newly appointed to head CIB in the Southern Lakes district, Buchan hunts the killer through the entanglements of corruption and abuse that lie barely below the surface of the tourist towns. The assistance of a woman traffic sergeant is critical to the hunt but she brings her own dilemmas. The community is practised at keeping its secrets, and finding the truth comes at a price.
Detective Sergeant Buchan keeps his own secret while probing the private lives of others among the mountains of New Zealand's spectacular Southern Lakes. Something, it seems, is rotten in the alpine paradise.
Featured in the 13 February 2017 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Pages : 340
Publisher : Bush Press
Publication date : 2016-02-12
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Fiction, NZ Crime & Mystery