TY  - BOOK
AB  - This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.
AU  - Catton, Eleanor,
CN  - PR9639.4.C39
CN  - PR9639.4.C39
ET  - First United States edition.
ID  - 470565
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - Prostitutes
KW  - Trials (Murder)
N1  - "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.
N2  - This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.
SN  - 9780316074315
SN  - 0316074314
T1  - The luminaries :a novel /
TI  - The luminaries :a novel /
ER  -