There was literary a murder outside my door...

A few months back I was talking to "sales clerk #3" at Whitcouls over in Bottany Downs and she'd mentioned a new book coming out soon written by one of their staff - it was a thriller/murder mystery with a supernatural twist which sounded pretty darn interesting...

The book "Senseless" by Andrea Jutson came out last week but I didn't really get a chance to start reading it till the weekend. Just as I'd been told, this was a great little murder mystery thriller involving a central character who happened to be a medium. The book is based in Auckland with a series of murders happening around Mission Bay, Greenlane, and one in Panmure. More specificaly, the swampy marsh at Panmure Basin. The same swampy marsh that had police officers chasing several criminals through a few months back.

Apart from being a really good story, this book was local, and accurate. I've sat in the cold dark bus stop on Symonds Street, next to the church, where the security guard was bludgeoned to death. I've walked through that carpark next to the Greenlane McDonalds where the nurse was strangled in the bushes just out of site of everything.

All the places you know arn't safe, and couldn't possibly be dangerous - come to life in graphic detail (more from having been to them numerous times than extreme descriptive writing). It makes for some fairly surreal, yet compelling reading.

tags: auckland  panmure  thriller  mystery  murder  

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