Kia ora koutou,
Whoohoo, my crime novel, The Wild Card, published by The Cuba Press, is here, hot off the press. You can find it in all good bookshops. It is my first ever crime novel and the first novel in the new genre I have invented, Cosy Noir. This means that while it has dark places (hey its a crime novel, okay?) it also has funny ones.
A crime novel has a good story with a murder or two happening along the way. Someone has to solve the puzzle, catch the crims, someone has to right the wrong. Crime novels are where Good triumphs over Evil. Most of the time anyway.
There are all kinds of crime novels. There are courtroom dramas, the who did it puzzles, private eye stories where the best ones have really good dialogue, forensic investigation stories for those with nerves of iron, missing person stories, both real and imagined, police procedural stories and the locked room body in the library cosy crime stories.
The Wild Card has a theatrical background – of course it does. Ngaio Marsh wasn’t the only NZ writer involved in theatre. It has a strong brave hero, Ruby.
And then, my darlings, then – there’s the wild card…
Renée
