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2000s: Does a travelling circus hold the key to a series of murders in the city?
2000s: Does a travelling circus hold the key to a series of murders in the city?
Constable Sam Shephard has moved to Dunedin from Mataura.
She is to start training as a detective in the police force but has to start on the bottom rung of the ladder. She’s given the duties either no one wants or those her boss decides to pass on to her.
A case comes in that she’s not allowed to work on – that of a young university student found battered to death and floating in a stream running through the botanical gardens.
However much to the annoyance of Sam’s boss, Sam is the one the one who discovers that this is not the first unsolved murder on the south island. More significantly, they all seem to have happened when the traveling circus was in town; the same circus that is presently in Dunedin.
Sam therefore decides to work alone and to keep her investigation secret. But is she wise to do so and what kind of danger is she actually in?
The nice and very pretty gardens which are the crime scene in the novel but normally is a very nice place for a wander! You could easily spend a day here but just think of that poor student as you walk around – the first place on your Sam Shephard booktrail!
The entrance to the Leith and the very small street where there’s a bit of a search. Don’t go here in the dark!
There are a lot of things you could look at in this street, but what does someone see in the novel? Haha you might not see this, but it would be fun to look!
Author/ Guide: Vanda Symon Destination: Dunedin Departure Time: 2000s
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