Beatty, Des,

Fatal legacy / Des Beatty. - 298 pages ; 21 cm

Novel.

When Hugh Bradford arrives at the hydro electric construction project as the new site geologist he is met with tragedy. Expecting to reunite with an old engineering mate, he instead finds him dead from a rock fall. As he becomes familiar with his surroundings he discovers the truth, the rock fall was no accident. As he resolves to find out who killed his friend, he becomes mixed up in a series of murders involving a group of immigrants working on the project. On closer inspection it appears that despite escaping the ruins of their homeland after World War II, they remain haunted by something from their violent past.

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First Edition Ltd., P.O. Box 32032, Maungaraki, Wellington, N.Z.


Geologists--New Zealand--Fiction
Immigrants--New Zealand--Fiction
Murder--New Zealand--Fiction
Hydroelectric power plants--Design and construction--Fiction
New Zealand fiction--21st century.

NZ823.3