Steve Braunias' Missing Persons: Compilation of stories on how some New Zealanders vanish go missing 17 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM 3 minutes to read This compilation of 12 cases, most of which first appeared in the New Zealand Herald, is a follow-up of sorts to the author's 2015 The Scene of the Crime. The book developed during a time when Steve Braunias considered himself "missing". "The usual failings," he writes, "plus old age, which for so long had felt like a rumour, was busy furnishing my life with intimations of mortality." He "was a lost soul" who "took a special interest in reporting" the stories of Socksay Chansy, Nigel Peterson, and Murray Mason. Braunias "almost felt envious. They had managed to disappear."