Fern Sutherland
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a middle-aged man dies of a heart attack while cycling up a mountain, his demise is thought to be from natural causes. But when Shepherd connects the death to another case involving an angry bull, the detectives suspect a killer is targeting the beneficiaries of a will.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
The owner of the Wilbury Amusement Park dies from a heart attack after claiming to have seen a ghost on the haunted-house ride. Shepherd suspects foul play when he finds what appear to be bite marks on the victim's neck.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
The morning after her bachelorette party, a professional tennis player is found in the river wearing a wedding dress. Mike interviews the party attendees, while Sims informs the groom-to-be and his best man, but their stories don't add up.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
A disgraced doctor is found hooked up to an electroconvulsive therapy machine in an abandoned asylum that lacks electricity. While Sims and Breen interview the deceased's former patients, Shepherd tries to get through to the only witness to the crime: a disturbed woman who believes she is a mouse.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories--and animosities--run deep. He's an experienced cop with a 1971 "classic" car, a collection of country music cassettes, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. The new woman in his life is his assistant, Detective Constable Kristin Sims a by-the-book investigator nearly twenty years younger than her boss's car, who quickly has to get used to his lone-wolf...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
DSS Mike Shepherd and DC Kristin Simms return to uncover more macabre goings on in the quaint, murder-ridden town of Brokenwood. Beneath the town's peaceful veneer are buried secrets, treacherous lies, and murderous rivalries.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a seemingly quiet country town in New Zealand, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd finds that murder can happen anywhere. Working alongside Detective Constable Kristin Sims, Shepherd solves grisly murders in this gripping and well-written series.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In the sleepy town of Brokenwood, New Zealand, the affable residents may seem harmless, but killers, blackmailers, and thieves lurk in every picturesque corner. To quell the community's alarming murder rate, Detective Mike Shepherd uses an unconventional style that contrasts with the methodical approach of his partner, Detective Kristin Sims, and the eager assistance of DC Sam Breen.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
On the morning of Brokenwood's annual classic-car show, the chairman of the Classic Car Restoration Society is found dead with a lungful of gasoline next to his beloved El Dorado. Shepherd and Sims try to determine if it was a petrol-siphoning accident or something more deliberate.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas in Brokenwood, but not all is merry and bright. When the mayor is murdered in his home after the annual holiday parade, Shepherd, Sims, and Breen question those locals vying for the mayoral position. But when more bodies turn up, the detectives believe there's a darker motive at work.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the wife of a tourist-trap owner is discovered dead, the other local tourism operators are not particularly sad about her demise. The medical examiner traces her cause of death to New Zealand's only native venomous spider-the katipo. But how could one spider administer 10 times the lethal dose?
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Brokenwood mourns when a beloved local poet, Declan O'Grady, passes away from cancer. But the town gets a shock when the coffin accidentally falls from the hearse, revealing that the corpse inside is not Declan but rather a young woman identifiable only by a scarlet tattoo.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
The Mama's Angels, an all-women motorcycle club, are in Brokenwood for the wedding of one of their members, until a murder casts suspicion amongst their ranks and throws the town into chaos.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Mike, Kristin, and Chalmers must determine who wanted a veterinary nurse dead, with the answer seemingly tied to simmering tensions between the twin sisters with whom the victim worked.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
The strangulation death of a nun on her way to chapel poses a challenge for the investigators when they learn members of her order have taken a vow of silence.
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
A musical theater performance reenacting Brokenwood's history goes horrifically awry when the composer is electrocuted on stage. But was it murder or just an unfortunate accident?
Author
Series
Brokenwood Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mike and the team discover more than one dead body-and a significant amount of family rivalry-at Wadsworth Manor, home to a pair of elderly siblings.