Ngaio Marsh Awards 2025
Mystery In The Library events
Lower Hutt panel discussion:
WHEN: Wednesday 2 April 2025
WHERE: War Memorial Library, 2 Queens Drive, Lower Hutt
WHEN: 6pm for a 6.30pm panel discussion
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2024 Ngaios winner Jennifer Lane
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Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning writer Andi C Buchanan
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Ngaios Best First Novel finalist Kim Hunt
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cosy mystery author Rodney Strong
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Wellington schoolteacher & historical thriller writer Stephen Tester
FREE EVENT
Wairarapa panel discussion:
WHEN: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
WHERE: Carterton Library, 50 Holloway Street, Carterton
WHEN: 6pm - 7.45pm
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Ngaios Best First Novel finalist Kim Hunt
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academic & co-author of The Crewe Murders, James Hollings
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romance & thriller author Melissa Buck
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'Godfather of modern NZ crime writing' Paul Thomas
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retired doctor Rosy Fenwicke
FREE EVENT
Kapiti panel discussion:
WHEN: Thursday 8 May 2025
WHERE: Paraparaumu Library, 9 Iver Trask Place, Paraparaumu
WHEN: 6pm - 7.30pm
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Duncan Sarkies, award-winning writer of novels, theatre, film and television.
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Mandy Hager, multi-award-winning writer of fiction for adults and young adults.
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Paraparaumu author of adult fiction, Patricia Donovan
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Ngaios Best First Novel finalist Kim Hunt
FREE EVENT
Light refreshments provided.
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.
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Ngā mihi me te aroha nui.
