Hooked Up - Fiona Sussman

The unforgettable detective duo from The Doctor s Wife are back, and this time the stakes are even higher.

When DS Ramesh Bandara is asked to head up a homicide investigation in a small New Zealand beachside town, he has no idea he’s stumbled onto something much bigger. With little to go on, the investigation is frustratingly slow to get off the ground, but it’s Bandara’s unconventional colleague, Hilary Stark, who spots similarities with a murder case she worked years before.

Overnight, their suspect list expands to include the cast and crew from a controversial reality TV show, Hooked Up, that screened a decade earlier. Someone, it appears, has been holding onto a grudge for a very long time.

But is Hilary’s hunch really on the money? This is New Zealand, after all . . .

Author Bio:

Former family doctor, Fiona Sussman hung up her stethoscope in 2003 to pursue another long-held dream, to write. Published internationally, she is the author of five novels and numerous short stories. Her novel The Last Time We Spoke won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2017 and was shortlisted for the NZ Heritage Prize in 2016. An early draft won the Kobo/NZ Society of Authors Publishing Prize. Her novel Addressed to Greta launched Bateman Books’ fiction list and went on to win the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction in 2021. The Doctor’s Wife was shortlisted for the 2023 NZ Booklovers Award for Best Fiction, shortlisted for the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime and will be translated into French and Swedish. Fiona's short stories have also received critical acclaim, including 'Mad Men', which won the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award in 2018, and 'A Breath, A Bunk, A Land, A Sky', which was shortlisted from over five thousand entries for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2020.

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