New novel BLUE HOTEL available for pre-order

My new novel Blue Hotel is published August 2022.

Blue Hotel is a noir detective novel set in New Zealand, 1987: brick cell phones; two TV channels; home taping is killing music.

On a Saturday at midnight in a North Island tourist trap a stranger dressed in black leather walks down to the water and is gone.

The stranger, Blanca Nul was a visitor to the small, grey country. There are rumours the tourist modelled in a pornographic magazine. The rumours fly.

Ray Moody chases the story but he's in the drink himself. He crashes at the scene of the crime and is lamed. The reporter kills his career.

Then one year to the day after she first disappeared, the dead tourist reappears — only to die again. The body double is Ray's second chance. Rewriting Blanca's story will be his comeback.

The trail of missing lives draws him deep into the underworld. Ray will find the truth. But his story can never run.

Blue Hotel is published August 2022. Available for pre-order at Brio Books and Booktopia.