The village of Panui is filled with Kiwi nut-jobs, saints and sinners. Here are some of them.
Meet Charlie Cromwell, nine years-old - an irrepressible infant mystic and trouble maker. She inveigles herself into Abigail Grogan's life and her motor car as they set out on a grand adventure to find Abigail's lost son. With them is Stella Goodstar, owner of the spiritual / porn shop (she doesn't know which end to cater for). Then when the villainous Mr Golightly appears on the scene as well as the local cop, you know Charlie's in for a bumpy ride.
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After it was all over everyone agreed they wouldn't have imagined George Ainslie a hero. Heroes are majestic, sublime. They look like Jason Momoa. George is so bland his own mother wouldn't have picked him out of a police line-up. On top of that, he's a bit of a bumbler. He falls into events. Things happen to him through no fault of his own. Take the disappearance of his barber. And the kidnapping of local children. So, how did George get to be a hero? 
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Midnight Heroes Series
Dead before Curfew
Death of a Countess
Death and the Dancing Girl
Under a Deadly Sky
This series of books is set in World War II, some are based on true events and others are merely the imagination of the author.

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 Rusty Naills and his brother Slasher want to be career criminals but, so far, their score has been a great big zero. They realize that careers have to be worked at one step at a time. It isn't as if there's a whole lot of competition. Panui is a particularly law-abiding town, not counting a dead body, a stash or two of drugs and a bit of torture on the side. Rusty and Slasher should have the field to themselves - if only they could get going. 


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Rusty and Slasher's Pa returns from his sojourn in Her Majesty's 5-star maximum hotel. He has a family-bonding exercise in mind; a security van heist. The wheelman will be their Nana (if she can source some adult diapers). The boys are reluctant, they want to move on from a life of crime. Plans, of course, go awry until Pa is rescued by Felix, his ex-cellmate. but that's when things really go wrong.
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I was used to seeing ghosts. When I was a child I'd see grey Shadows flickering on the edges of my vision. When I moved my head they slithered away so I never quite saw them full-on. If I'd stretched out my hands to catch them they slipped through my fingers like water. I remember asking my mother about them.
"Now, Tessa Godwin," she said. "What nonsense. There are no such things as ghosts."
But I knew there were because I saw them.

​In this suspenseful novel Jenny Harrison asks the question - are ghosts the product of a troubled mind or are they - out there?

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In 2018 the Te Aroha Writers' group decided to put together a book in celebration of their town. Artists and writers combined to bring you Te Aroha Conversations: in the garden. We hope this will be the first of a series of conversations about our town.

Now sadly out of print.
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