Tag: New Zealand
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Killer on the Kelvin Explorer available at my local library
Toot toot! My local library’s weekly New Titles email has pulled into the inbox! The Palmerston North City Library‘s online catalogue says all copies of Killer on the Kelvin Explorer are already spoken for, with one on the New Titles display and the rest already reserved for readers! I’ll have to head in and investigate…
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The Gay Book Club loved the Milverton Mysteries
We loved the Milverton Mysteries! It made us want to book a ticket to New Zealand! The Gay Book Club (Website, Instagram) The trouble with living on the opposite side of the world is that, well, we’re on the opposite side of the world. The flight is often quite lengthy and usually involves more than…
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Tomorrow is Bookshop Day
Bookshops across Aotearoa New Zealand will be doing all sorts of fun stuff: spot prizes, lucky dips, author events, read-a-thons, mini Penguin figurines, silent reading raves, biscuits, bookshop crawls, window displays, kids’ activities, and who knows what else. Some of my favourite bookshops are getting involved: I’m sure there are many more bookshops getting involved…
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Killer on the Kelvin Explorer in stock at Bruce McKenzie Booksellers
A big box of paperback books recently arrived on my doorstep! I have now dropped off a bunch of copies of the latest Milverton Mystery, Killer on the Kelvin Explorer, to my local independent bookshop, Bruce McKenzie Booksellers, in Palmerston North. Check them out in store or online! Here I am accidentally colour-coordinating for the…
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Where’s Wally? Milverton Edition
I didn’t know what else to do with all these pictures on my camera roll from a recent trip to Auckland, so I decided to hide a few Milvertonians around the city. Can you spot them? The Milverton Mysteries
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A full-day scenic railway journey in New Zealand (real vs fictional)
I traded in the fictional Kelvin Explorer for the very real Northern Explorer yesterday. The full-day scenic railway journey runs much of the length of New Zealand’s North Island “from rolling farmland and volcanic landscapes to dramatic river gorges and rugged coastlines.” Also: engineering marvels like the Makohine Viaduct and the Raurimu Spiral. A very…
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Paul Austin Ardoin recommends Killer on the Kelvin Explorer
Paul Austin Ardoin (author of the Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and the Woodhead & Becker Mysteries) was an early reader of Killer on the Kelvin Explorer. He had some lovely things to say about the latest Milverton Mystery and even recommended it to the readers of his email newsletter. Check it out below (and be sure…
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Killer on the Kelvin Explorer paperbacks out now
The latest Milverton Mystery, Killer on the Kelvin Explorer, is available now in paperback! Amazon are the first to have the book available for readers: It will filter through to other online retailers in the coming days and weeks. So check in with your preferred bookseller to get your copy! Addison Harper and Sergeant Jake…
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It’s paperback proofing time for the Kelvin Explorer
I was heading out for a run and found a surprise at my front door: the paperback proofs of my latest mystery, Killer on the Kelvin Explorer! Now, what’s next? I’ll check these paperback proofs to make sure everything is in order and the print edition is looking its best. So… when will they be…
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Naomi Kuttner on the latest Milverton Mystery
Solving a mystery on a train is about where the similarities end for the meticulous private detective Hercule Poirot and the anxious amateur sleuth Addison Harper… Thanks to the wonderful Naomi Kuttner, author of the Retired Assassin’s Guide series, for the shout-out in her latest author newsletter: Killer on the Kelvin Explorer Addison Harper and…