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Franz Josef
Detective Nick Chester (Related to this series)
- Author
- Alan Carter
- Narrator
- Jerome Pride
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 4 November 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The tiny South Island town of Franz Josef is perched precariously on New Zealand’s Alpine Fault. It already faces devastating earthquakes, floods and landslides. And now it harbours a killer.
When a body is discovered suspended in a glacier, detectives Nick Chester and Latifa Rapata are sent to investigate. More victims surface, as does a web of corruption stretching from the international aid industry to the blood-steeped fields of a civil war.
From the award-winning author of Marlborough Man and Doom Creek, this atmospheric thriller plunges readers into a blood-soaked crevasse of natural disasters, international intrigue and calculated murder.
This is the third book in the thrilling Nick Chester series by award-winning author Alan Carter.
‘Franz Josef is trademark Alan Carter: appealing characters, convincing police work and bursts of action, with an overlay of international tensions ripped from the headlines.’ GARRY DISHER
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- Author
- Alan Carter
- Narrator
- Jerome Pride
- Duration
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9781004229130
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
Synopsis
DS Nick Chester returns with a new case that will test his limits.The tiny South Island town of Franz Josef is perched precariously on New Zealand’s Alpine Fault. It already faces devastating earthquakes, floods and landslides. And now it harbours a killer.When a body is discovered suspended in a glacier, detectives Nick Chester and Latifa Rapata are sent to investigate. More victims surface, as does a web of corruption stretching from the international aid industry to the blood-steeped fields of a civil war.From the award-winning author of Marlborough Man and Doom Creek, this atmospheric thriller plunges readers into a blood-soaked crevasse of natural disasters, international intrigue and calculated murder.This is the third book in the thrilling Nick Chester series by award-winning author Alan Carter.‘Franz Josef is trademark Alan Carter: appealing characters, convincing police work and bursts of action, with an overlay of international tensions ripped from the headlines.’ GARRY DISHER
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