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Der Brite John Chamberlain macht mit seiner Frau und den Kindern Urlaub an der dünnbesiedelten Westküste Neuseelands. Ihr Auto kommt von der Straße ab und stürzt über eine Klippe in die Tiefe. Beide Eltern sterben, aber die drei Kinder auf der Rückbank überleben den Autounfall. Nach zwei Tagen werden sie von zwei Outlaws gerettet, die auf einer abgelegenen Farm Cannabis anbauen. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass die vermeintlichen Retter ein pa...

Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tire tracks in the mud leading into an almost undamaged screen of bushes and trees. No other cars passed that way until after dawn. By that time the tracks had been washed away by the heavy rain. After being in New Zealand for only five days, the English Chamberlain family had vanished into thin air. The date was 4 April 1978. In 2010 the remains of ...

Carl Nixon is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and playwright. He has written four novels and a number of original plays which have been performed throughout New Zealand. He is published by Penguin in New Zealand and Australia, but has never been published in the US In The Tally Stick, an upper-class English family arrives in the wilderness of New Zealand only for both parents to be killed in car crash Trying to survive alone in the ...

Much more than a murder mystery, this powerful novel is about coming of age and loss of innocence. The body of a teenage girl is found on the beach in the days leading up to Christmas, 1980. It's an event that makes a huge impact on all those who live along Rocking Horse Road, which runs through the Spit, a long 'finger of bone - dry sand' between the ocean and the estuary. It's an event that for one hot summer brings together a group of fifte...

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Der dritte Roman von Carl Nixon führt weit in der Zeit zurück: zu einem Maimorgen im Jahr 1919, an dem die Krankenschwester Elizabeth Whitman auf dem Weg zu ihrer Arbeit ist. Ein Wagen hält neben ihr, und der Fahrer überreicht ihr einen Brief, der ihr Leben verändern wird. Zu der Zeit wohnt sie mit ihrem 4jährigen Sohn Jack äußerst beengt bei ihren Eltern, Jacks Vater, den sie während des Kriegs in London geheiratet hat, wird seit zwei Jahren ...

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This book was written to give insight to the author's ways, his general views and concepts on life, and perhaps how he has gained his own understandings and not always how God intended him to live.