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Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
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English
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A musical theater performance reenacting Brokenwood's history goes horrifically awry when the composer is electrocuted on stage. But was it murder or just an unfortunate accident?
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Brokenwood Mysteries volume 3
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English
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The strangulation death of a nun on her way to chapel poses a challenge for the investigators when they learn members of her order have taken a vow of silence.
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Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
During a hunting trip, three friends set off in pursuit of a kill, but one of them ends up with a bullet in the head. Who fired the fatal shot? Or was there a fourth shooter? Although Shepherd and Sims find out the deceased's fiancée had been having a fling with his best man, one of her older relationships may hold the key to the killing.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 5
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English
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Jane Fergusson is gold panning in the Brokenwood River when she is gunned down. The detectives soon learn that the Fergusson family has been feuding over gold since the 1860s with the Hollands, who have a homestead directly across the river from them. Could the killer be Bill Holland, a known antagonist of Jane's? Or Maude, a recently fired farmhand? Or even Jane's best friend?
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Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
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English
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Mike, Kristin, and Chalmers must determine who wanted a veterinary nurse dead, with the answer seemingly tied to simmering tensions between the twin sisters with whom the victim worked.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
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English
Description
When the body of a local farmer is fished out of the river, Shepherd wonders if it was suicide, accidental death, or something more sinister. The man was a well-known drunk with a reputation for violence, and many in town might have a motive to do him harm. However, the inspector starts to believe the answer to the case may lie in an unsolved 10-year-old murder.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Jared discovers a severed human hand in a crayfish pot on Brokenwood Beach, Shepherd, Sims, and Breen set about finding who the hand belongs to and if he or she is still alive. Suspicion falls on the Keelys, who own the crayfish pot and fiercely protect their family's fishing legacy and territories.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Kristin takes Mike to the local farmers market, but it becomes a crime scene when the owner staggers into the crowd with a pitchfork embedded in her back. The cause of death seems obvious-until Gina uncovers something shocking while performing the autopsy.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
When DC Breen and his rugby team show up for practice, they are shocked to see their coach dead, stripped, and tied to a goalpost. Shepherd and Sims try to find out who would want to do that to a beloved pillar of the community. When a second body is found, the detectives believe the deaths are related. Could a serial killer be on the loose?
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
On the morning of Brokenwood's annual classic-car show, the chairman of the Classic Car Restoration Society is found dead with a lungful of gasoline next to his beloved El Dorado. Shepherd and Sims try to determine if it was a petrol-siphoning accident or something more deliberate.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas in Brokenwood, but not all is merry and bright. When the mayor is murdered in his home after the annual holiday parade, Shepherd, Sims, and Breen question those locals vying for the mayoral position. But when more bodies turn up, the detectives believe there's a darker motive at work.
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Brokenwood Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jared lands the title role in the Brokenwood Theatre Society's production of Hamlet, but a young cast member, Ben Faulkner, falls dead at the end of a performance. At first, the detectives think Ben died of natural causes, until Shepherd smells a lethal poison on the body. Then he and Sims dig deeper into the lives of the eccentric cast and crew.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mike and the team discover more than one dead body-and a significant amount of family rivalry-at Wadsworth Manor, home to a pair of elderly siblings.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the wife of a tourist-trap owner is discovered dead, the other local tourism operators are not particularly sad about her demise. The medical examiner traces her cause of death to New Zealand's only native venomous spider-the katipo. But how could one spider administer 10 times the lethal dose?
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
A wealthy man is found face down in his pool, stabbed in the back with a samurai sword, with a threatening note left at the scene. A police dog leads Shepherd and Sims to Sunset Manor, a home for the elderly with dementia.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a TV crew from the hit series All Things Old and Beautiful arrives in town, the citizens of Brokenwood excitedly bring out their antiques to have them evaluated on camera. The next morning, the show's superstar host ends up murdered by an item he purchased the day before.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
At a birthday picnic for Shepherd, the team witnesses a skydiver fall to his death. Even worse, the victim turns out to be Sims's ex-boyfriend. When it appears his parachute was tampered with, suspicion falls on the family members who jumped with him.
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Brokenwood Mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
The charred remains of a body are discovered in the burned-out remnants of a rural shed, but no one lived there, and no one was meant to be there at all. As Mike and Kristin are tasked with identifying the unidentifiable, it becomes apparent this is the third in a run of "accidental" deaths, all attended by the Brokenwood Fire Brigade. Could one of its members be Brokenwood's first serial killer?
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Brokenwood Health Retreat suffers a massive PR problem when a spa guest dies in the steam room. While investigating the tricky case, Mike and his team encounter family feuds, spiritual rituals, and a missing ring.
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Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Four of the five committee members of Brokenwood Golf Club start on their regular morning round only to find the horribly disfigured body of the fifth, in a bunker near the first green. Suspicion falls on the so-called Clubhouse Bandit, who has been stealing trophies from the club and is dating the dead woman's daughter. The detectives discover that the deceased inspired loyalty and loathing in equal measure.