Red Hands

"Paddy Richardson blends social comment and history in her well-written novel. Although she's an award-winning writer of crime fiction, Dunedin's Paddy Richardson seems to have flown a little under the radar so far."NZ Herald Denny doesn't like to be crossed. He doesn't like it at all. Things are looking good for television journalist, Rebecca Thorne, as she prepares to expose Denny Graham, the property dealer who defrauded naive investors of their life savings, in an explosive new documentary. But her boss has different ideas. Denny can wait. The next documentary, he tells her, is to be about an incident which savagely divided the country. An incident which occurred thirty years ago. How can she find a new angle on a topic which has been re-hashed a thousand times? There are the Lambs. Who were those two men, so prominent in the protest movement of the time, who disappeared shortly afterwards? And who is Caspar Stone, shrouded inside his mansion, the walls covered in masks? But who is following Rebecca? Who is watching her? Who is phoning her in the night?"