{"product_id":"okiwi-brown","title":"Okiwi Brown","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Burke and Hare 'anatomy murders' of 1828 terrify Edinburgh, until Burke is hanged and Hare disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver a decade later, in the early days of New Zealand colonial settlement, a whaler washes up on the eastern shores of Port Nicholson. He calls himself Okiwi Brown, sets up a pub with a nasty reputation and finds himself a woman who had been abandoned on his beach. Nearby, children sing dark nursery rhymes of murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne afternoon Okiwi' is visited by a pair of ex-soldiers, a bo'sun looking for a fight, and itinerant worker William Leckie with his young daughter Mary. When a body is discovered on the beach, it could be that a drunken man has drowned. But it could be that the gathered witnesses know something more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"David Bateman Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45739520884972,"sku":"9781988595801","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781988595801.jpg?v=1726572746","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/okiwi-brown","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}