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Trish McCormack

    This author crafts crime fiction set against the stunning backdrops of New Zealand's most beautiful locations, drawing inspiration from places she knows intimately. Her protagonist, Philippa Barnes, a glacier guide, embodies a blend of self-deprecation, tenacity, kindness, and a dark sense of humor. Philippa's character reflects the author's own pull towards wild spaces and the thrill of uncovering mysteries. The narratives are compelling, offering readers both suspense and an appreciation for dramatic natural environments.

    Assigned to Murder
    • 2009

      Assigned to Murder

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.9(29)Add rating

      As Philippa Barnes, a young West Coast glacier guide, is getting over her parents' deatg in a climbing accident, Kirsten, a journalist friend of hers, is murdered beside a nearby lake. Philippa teams up with Kirsten's brother Jack to try and find out what Kirsten was investigating while a diarist tries to understand the emotion behind a betrayal that has poisoned at least one life. Philippa's search will take her from the secretive people of the lake to the home of high court judge, Loraine Latimer, a powweful woman who has a strange relationshipwith her family. Philippa finds that the murder of Kirsten is linked to a decades-old mystery, but not in time to prevent another tragedy. Past and present finally come together in a late night confrontationat Lake Kaniere when two very different people face the consequences of choices they made decades before

      Assigned to Murder