Takapuna Grammar School

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Everyone in this Bank is a Thief

By Benjamin stevenson

3 stars

Ernest is a private detective, best knowm for solving murders. While attending an interview in a small town bank, he and 9 others are taken as hostages. When a person is found dead in the bank, all are now suspected as being the killer.
Handbags and Gladrags

By Maggie Alderson

3 stars

Fashion Stylist for Chic magazine, Emily Pointer, travels the world for work and is happily married. A wild night with an Australian photographer might just be another experience, until other aspects of her life begin to unravel.
Recipe for Life

By Nicky Pellegrino

4 stars

Two friends, Alice a chef and Leila a writer, decide to spend a summer in a crumbling villa in a small Italian coastal town. Babetta the villa's caretaker becomes an integral part of their stay.
We solve murders

By Richard Osman

5 stars

Steve Wheeler, an ex-policeman, is enjoying retired life doing some investigative work. His daughter-in-law, a private security officer involves a reluctant Steve in a breakneck race around the world to solve 3 murders and bags of illegally smuggled money.
The winter sun

By Di Morrissey

4 stars

Cassie Holloway decides to resign her job, as she marriage is over and leave Sydney to settle in a small coastal town in NSW. Here she becomes involved with the Aquino family who have been in commercial fishing for generations.
Famous last words

By Gillian McAlister

5 stars

As Camilla leaves home for the first day of work after the birth of her daughter, her husband is nowhere to be seen, but has left an unusual note. During the morning a hostage situation is developing in London, involving her husband.
What you wish for

By Catherine Robertson

3 stars

Set in Gabriel's Bay, involves several locals - from a newly immigrant Indian doctor, farmers, family pub owners, greenies and their various everyday problems.
Too old for this

By Samantha Downs

3 stars

Loretta Jones has lived in a small town for decades, but when an investigative journalist comes asking questions about her past, involving a series of deaths. Lottie has a problem to deal with.
Game On Tempting 28

By Janet Evanovich

4 stars

Another comedic novel with Stephanie Plum, a Bailbonds Enforcer chasing a fugitive - an expert international computer hacker, who has failed to attend his court hearing and skipped bail. Most amusing.
The Heart is a Star

By Megan Rogers

4 stars

Layla is an accountant in a disintegrating marriage with 2 children while trying to manage her unstable mother. Set in Tasmania, at Christmas time when she visits her suicidal mother. Here is she must confront her beloved father's death from several years before.
Love Always

By Harriet Evans

4 stars

Natalie returns to Cornwall to her grandmother's funeral - a famous British landscape painter. Her grandfather gives her the first pages of her late aunt's diary (who died in an accident as a 15 year old). Where is the rest of her diary?
The Kitchen Front

By Jennifer Ryan

4 stars

During WWII a BBC radio programme called the "Kitchen Front" launches a cooking contest in which four women compete. Each harbours secrets which could change every result.
The Grown Ups

By Marian Keyes

4 stars

An extended Irish family's 8 months journey through various main events to a major climax amd its fall out. An esay but long read.
A Sister in My House

By Linda Olsson

3 stars

A younger sister comes to stay with her estranged older sister in a small Spanish village and they revisit their past.
Ward D

By Freida McFadden

4 stars

A thriller involving medical students in a secured pyschiatric ward.

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