TY - BOOK AU - Catton,Eleanor TI - The luminaries: a novel SN - 9780316074315 AV - PR9639.4.C39 L86 2013 PY - 2013/// KW - Criminal investigation KW - Fiction KW - New Zealand KW - History KW - 1853-1876 KW - Gold discoveries KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries ER -