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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 i...

List The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. 2  How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (Allen Lane, $48) From the New York Times review: “Power comes in many forms, from geothermal and nuclear to congressional and economic; it’s wonderful that Gates has decided to work hard on climate questions, but to be truly helpful he needs to resolve to be a better geek — he needs to really get ...

18/03/2021 Watch: Steve Braunias' full interview. Credits: The AM Show Grace Millane, Murray Mason, the Lundy family - all these names are synonymous with some of New Zealand's most horrific disappearances and murders. Why did they happen? Were the perpetrators ever caught? Journalist and author Steve Braunias has followed 12 of these cases closely and captures them all in his new book Missing Persons. Braunias spoke to The AM Show about the novel, and the mysteries behind New Zealand's most infamous cases.  Watch the full interview.

A top cop says there are several pieces to the puzzle, when it comes to improving the safety of online dating A top cop says there are several pieces to the puzzle, when it comes to improving the safety of online dating 18 March 2021 Tinder is trialling a new vetting system in the US -- which will allow users to check public records and reports of violence and abuse. Detective Inspector Scott Beard -- who won national praise for helping bring Grace Millane's murderer to justice -- says it's a good idea, that will help reduce sexual violence. But he says it's important everyone takes si...

Police have been paying criminal informants for decades. Police are reviewing the policy that governs how they pay secret informants, as new figures reveal police have paid $6.1m to secret sources – mostly criminals – since its records began. Police say the little known-about informer resource, called the Covert Human Intelligence Source programme, is a valuable source of information used daily. Policy governing the programme was last reviewed in 2018, and this week police confirmed it is under review again now. It declined to release the current policy saying it could prejudice investig...