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Ngaio Marsh Awards 2025 
Mystery In The Library events

Lower Hutt event:

WHEN: Wednesday 2 April 2024
WHERE: War Memorial Library, 2 Queens Drive, Lower Hutt
WHEN: 6pm for a 6.30pm panel discussion

  • 2024 Ngaios winner Jennifer Lane

  • Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning writer Andi C Buchanan

  • Ngaios Best First Novel finalist Kim Hunt 

  • cosy mystery author Rodney Strong

  • Wellington schoolteacher & historical thriller writer Stephen Tester

FREE EVENT

Wairarapa event:

WHEN: Wednesday, 23 April

WHERE: Carterton Library, 50 Holloway Street, Carterton

WHEN: TBA

  • Ngaios Best First Novel finalist Kim Hunt

  • academic & co-author of The Crewe Murders, James Hollings

  • romance & thriller author Melissa Buck

  • 'Godfather of modern NZ crime writing' Paul Thomas

  • retired doctor Rosy Fenwicke

FREE EVENT

Kim Hunt writes about the sort of kick-ass female protagonists you rarely see in crime fiction.

Working class heroes. Fierce femmes. Gender outlaws and precious misfits. Readers are propelled through gritty Antipodean road trips, urban cityscapes and endless tracts of coastal forest: a body dumpers paradise.

The Cal Nyx Mystery Thriller series began in 2020 with The Beautiful Dead, followed by The Quarry (2023) and The Freezer (2024).

The Ngaio Marsh Awards recognized The Beautiful Dead when it was shortlisted for Best First Novel in 2021 with The Quarry being longlisted in 2024.

Kim's current work-in-progress is a fourth Cal Nyx mystery thriller.

 

A standalone crime novel set in New Zealand, The Corrector, is in pre-publication.

 

Join the waitlist to get further news, notifications and updates.

Ngā mihi me te aroha nui.

Kim Hunt

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