A conversation with a friend turned to someone we both know who, my friend said, had written a couple of books using the pseudonym Alix Bosco – Cut & Run and Slaughter Falls.
On the strength of the friend’s recommendation and knowledge of the writer’s other work I bought the books but they’re still on my books-to-read shelf.
However, I’m even more keen to read them now because Cut & Run has won the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand Crime Fiction.
Meanwhile speculation is rife on who dun the who dunnit.
Graham Beattie posts on the award ceremony and has previously asked who the hell is Alix Bosco?
Joan Druett also muses on Bosco’s identity in a mystery within a mystery within a mystery.
These books are completely different from the author’s other work which is probably the reasons s/he wants to remain anonymous. I don’t know her/him well but I suspect s/he is amused at some of the wild guesses at her/his identity.
Update: Joan Druett has another guess.
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