Book description
A darkly gripping crime novel with an other-wordly twist. A small park
in a nice Auckland suburb is the least likely spot to stumble across a
body. The discovery of a man recently bludgeoned to death shatters the
illusion of mid-winter calm. But unfortunately for James Paxton, death
is nothing out of the ordinary to him. Suspicion falls all too easily on
Paxton, who's hiding a secret. Not only did he find the dead man - he
spoke to him, too. Gifts he wished he never had are called into play
when Mark Bradley begs him to track down his killer, for the sake of his
daughter. Paxton's carefully constructed new world threatens to crumble
as he is sucked into the hunt for a predator, while the police snap
close at his heels and the corpses keep mounting up, one by one . . .
Andrea Jutson was born and raised in Auckland. She has worked as a
journalist, bookseller and librarian. She has published two psychic
thrillers featuring reticent medium James Paxton, an English immigrant
to Auckland: Senseless and The Darkness Looking Back. In the Sunday Star
Times, her writing was compared to that of Ruth Rendell and Jeffery
Deaver. Clea Marshall, in nzgirl magazine, wrote: Ã Â I could visualise
every scene from the book and the locations werenà  t your average
Auckland icons, either. ... Andrea Jutson writes with authority and
compassion ... Senseless is a strong, thoughtful crime novel that stands
out from the crowd.à  à  Neither contrived nor clichà ©d, Paxton is a
fascinating and reasonably complex character à Â- not a cardboard cutout
of the average à  psychicà  tabloid columnist or wannabe TV celebrity
... Topped off nicely by moments of humour and domesticity that provide
a breather from the dark deeds, ità  s an enjoyable local read for
crime fiction fans,Ã Â Craig Sisterson concluded in NZ Lawyer.
