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Minnie's side of the story
Sacha de Bazin was in Invercargill recently talking about her very first book, The day she cradled me. She was so lovely and her talk was so interesting that it made me want to read the book. I remember studying the case of Minnie Dean - the infamous "Winton baby farmer" and the only woman in New Zealand history to be hanged - in my high school History class, so I was looking forward to reading de Bazin's fictional account of her life and crimes.
Blood count
Surgeon Edward Hammond once saved a man's life, never dreaming that this would come back to haunt him. The man was Dragan Gazi, a Serbian gangster who is now standing trial in The Hague for war crimes. Hammond is blackmailed into trying to retrieve Gazi's millions, which leads him on a dangerous, wild chase across Europe and forces him to unwillingly confront his own past decisions.
