By Marie Connolly
Quentin Wilson Publishing (2024)
An astronomy professor is murdered at Tekapo’s Mt John Observatory during an academic conference, and there are suspects aplenty. When criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle gets involved, she finds out the academics have been up to all kinds of mischief, from adultery to professional rivalry to intellectual property theft to the particular kind of workplace pettiness only someone who has worked in universities, as author Marie Connolly did, would understand.
Packed with intrigue, a great cast of characters and a murder scene backdropped by a blanket of whirling, indifferent stars, Dark Sky is a gripping whodunnit and a promising crime writing debut for Connolly.
LAURA WILLIAMSON
