Gavin Strawhan’s second novel, Slash, features ex-police sergeant Honey Chalmers, whom readers were first introduced to in his debut, The Call. Honey isn’t doing too well. She’s drinking too much, eating too little, working casual gigs for a shady firm of private investigators, and chatting to a ghost.
When a desperate father asks her to investigate his missing son, her quest brings conflict with dangerous locals and takes her from the wrecked forests of Tairāwhiti to the dark side of Fiji, right into the orbit of a strange, secretive teen, a deranged forestry boss, and a terrifying ex-cop turned drug lord.
Gail Pittaway’s review on RNZ.
‘Dark, fast-paced and emotionally raw, Slash confirms Gavin Strawhan as a major voice in New Zealand crime fiction,’ writes Andrea Molloy in NZ Booklovers.
