Publisher's Synopsis
This intriguing novel takes you down the back streets and sewer rivers of Auckland in the 1850s to uncover a savage triple murder. It also leads you into the dazzling ballrooms and past the closed curtains of respectability to reveal a tender love story. And it introduces you to the debating chamber and political machinations of New Zealand's first representative Parliament. Bringing the era and its people back to life, Michael Wall mixes fiction in with fact and serves up a compulsive, brilliantly realised story that will keep you guessing right up to the last page.Michael Wall is a former Chief Press Secretary in the Beehive. He now lives at Te Ore Ore in the Wairarapa where he writes and breeds sports horses. This is his fifth novel. His previous novels are Museum Street, Friendly Fire, The Cassino Legacy and Cardinal Sins.
