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Okiwi Brown

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The Burke and Hare ‘anatomy murders’ of 1828 terrify
Edinburgh, until Burke is hanged and Hare disappears.
Over a decade later, in the early days of New Zealand
colonial settlement, a whaler washes up on the eastern
shores of Port Nicholson. He calls himself Ōkiwi Brown,
sets up a pub with a nasty reputation and finds himself a
woman who had been abandoned on his beach. Nearby,
children sing dark nursery rhymes of murder.
One afternoon Ōkiwi’ is visited by a pair of ex-soldiers, a
bo’sun looking for a fight, and itinerant worker William
Leckie with his young daughter Mary. When a body is
discovered on the beach, it could be that a drunken man
has drowned. But it could be that the gathered witnesses
know something more

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ISBN

9781988595801

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Author

Sanders Cristina

Author Bio

Cristina Sanders grew up in the family’s Gateway
Bookshop in Wellington and has been a keen
reader ever since. An obsession with New Zealand
colonial history and geography defines her novels.
Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant was
a finalist for the 2023 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize
for Fiction and Displaced was shortlisted for the
NZ Book Awards for Children after winning the
Storylines Tessa Duder Award in 2020. Jerningham
was shortlisted for the 2020 NZ Heritage Awards.
Cristina lives in Hawke’s Bay and is a volunteer
crew member of the youth training ship Spirit of
New Zealand, where the sailing and the sailors keep
her well supplied with yarns.

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