Aotearoa's latest literary sleuth, D.I. Nyree Bradshaw is faced by a mystifying and culturally challenging case in Catherine Lea's thriller The Water's Dead. The DI and her team are in a race against time to solve the murder of a young Maori woman whose body is found dumped in volcanic rock pool by passing tourists tourists, as well as find a missing diabetic child. The story's set in the Far North where Catherine now lives. As she tells Lynn Freeman, she's previously written thrillers set in the USA. The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea's is published by Breaklight Press.