New in your local bookshop today is a pile
of copies of Cross Fingers, the new
novel by Paddy Richardson. It is a murder mystery: the murder was committed
during the 1981 Springbok Tour, and the investigator is TV journalist Rebecca
Thorne, whom we met in Paddy’s previous novel, Traces of Red.
Cross Fingers brilliantly evokes what it was like in 1981 for the protesters
while giving equal consideration to the police’s experiences; it is very sharp
on contemporary media practice; and there is a nice line in humour throughout,
especially in Rebecca’s relationship with her ex.
Here is what the publisher, Hachette, says about it. And here
is what Joan Mackenzie of Whitcoulls has to say in her review:
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