2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
Lawyers, drugs, deaths, and sneakiness, in New Zealand.
‘A Fly Under the Radar is a ripping yarn. It’s cantankerous and unexpected, with an eccentric cast that includes a millennial side-kick, a conniving landlord, a dangerous accountant, and starring a misanthropic grump who unwillingly becomes a criminal mastermind. This book is bitingly funny, and astonishingly clever, like if Jack Reacher had a sense of irony.
This a confident debut that sparkles with sarcasm. I’m confident that McCartney could get away with murder.’
Alie Benge
Genre: Mystery
‘A Fly Under the Radar is a ripping yarn. It’s cantankerous and unexpected, with an eccentric cast that includes a millennial side-kick, a conniving landlord, a dangerous accountant, and starring a misanthropic grump who unwillingly becomes a criminal mastermind. This book is bitingly funny, and astonishingly clever, like if Jack Reacher had a sense of irony.
This a confident debut that sparkles with sarcasm. I’m confident that McCartney could get away with murder.’
Alie Benge
Genre: Mystery
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