Book Author Fiona Sussman
Rights Available: World excl. NZ
When DS Ramesh Bandara is asked to head up a homicide investigation in a small New Zealand beachside town, he has no idea he’s stumbled onto something much bigger. With little to go on, the investigation is frustratingly slow to get off the ground, but it’s Bandara’s unconventional colleague, Hilary Stark, who spots similarities with a case she worked years earlier. Overnight, their suspect list expands to include the cast and crew from a beleaguered reality TV show that screened ten years earlier. Someone, it appears, has been holding onto a grudge for a very long time. But it is Hilary’s hunch really on the money?
About the Author
Fiona Sussman is the author of five novels and is a former GP, born in South Africa, who has lived in New Zealand for the last 30 years. Her short story A Breath, A Bunk, A Land, A Sky was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and her short story Mad Men won the Sunday Star Times award in 2018. Her debut novel, Shifting Colours, was published by Allison & Busby in the UK and by Berkley in the US under the title, Another Woman’s Daughter. Her second novel, The Last Time We Spoke (Allison & Busby) was translated into Polish and won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in New Zealand.
Addressed to Greta (2020) won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Fiction. The Doctor’s Wife was shortlisted for the 2023 NZ Booklovers Award for Best Fiction, shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2023 and will be translated into French and Swedish.
Category
Fiction
Genre
Crime Thriller
Publication Date
September 2025
Rights Available:
World excl. NZ
Rights Agents:
World
Paul Bateman, David Bateman Ltd
bateman@bateman.co.nz
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