My Brother’s Keeper (21 page)

Authors: Donna Malane

BOOK: My Brother’s Keeper

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to my agent, Daniel Myers, for his expert advice and encouragement. Thanks as always to my family for their generosity and kindness, and to Max for his expertise; to Bella Leia for reminding me of the strength of innocence and to Mischa for the importance of humour. And thanks to Ian, my partner in life and crime.

About the Author

Donna Malane is an award-winning television producer and scriptwriter. She has written for all genres of television, including a number of successful crime dramas.
Surrender
, her first adult novel, won the inaugural 2010 New Zealand Society of Authors/Pindar Publishing Prize. Donna lives in Auckland with novelist and poet Ian Wedde.

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. While many places are real, the events and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to the behaviour or appearance of actual persons holding positions similar to characters in the story is coincidental and unintentional.

HarperCollins
Publishers

First published 2013

This edition published 2013

HarperCollins
Publishers (New Zealand) Limited

PO Box 1, Auckland 1140

Donna Malane asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Malane, Donna.

My brother’s keeper / Donna Malane.

I. Title.

NZ823.2 — dc 23