In poker, a slow roll is the ultimate example of bad etiquette. It's when a player knows they've got the best hand but waits until their opponent thinks they've won the pot before showing the winning cards. In his novel The Slow Roll, Auckland-based advertising executive Simon Lendrum has introduced a new kind of sleuth to the New Zealand crime scene - O'Malley, a hugely successful poker player who investigates the occasional crime. First O'Malley's asked to find a man's missing teenage daughter, but then there's a murder of one of his poker circle: The Slow Roll by Simon Lendrum is published by upstart press