Double Book Launch: Ōkiwi Brown by Cristina Sanders - Strays & Waifs by Mandy Hager

Join us in the shop for a double book launch party to celebrate the two new books from Mandy Hager and Cristina Sanders. The Cuba Press are the publishers of both novels.

Mandy Hager's Strays & Waifs (A Chasing Ghosts Mystery) is a thrilling mystery that will keep you up at night.

About the book:
Cli-fi writer and climate activist Bella Goodfellow wants to save the world, but how can she do that when she can't even save herself? Forced from her hideaway after a landslide swallows it whole, she finds temporary accommodation with her publisher's elderly aunt on the Kapiti Coast. But lilac-eyed Freyja is not what she seems, and soon Bella's flung into a crazy scheme to expose a murderer and rescue a child. There's just one problem - before they can act Bella has to believe what Freyja is telling her ... and reopen her heart to her painful past.

Cristina Sanders' Ōkiwi Brown is a mysterious, complex tale of murderous events in 1828, Wellington.

About the book:
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 Okiwi 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 Okiwi' 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.