There is a place in Dunedin like no other. The beautiful sand, the crystal clear water and deep deep sky. This is Aramoana beach, where the characters of my book try to reflect on the horrors of their life and come to terms with their losses.

It seems like a perfect place to be to reflect on the past and looking towards the brighter future.

In fact, Aramoana was the place for the deadliest shooting in New Zealand history. It happened on November 13th (and it was Tuesday, not Friday) 1990, when a man called David Grey (fifty shades anyone?) killed 13 people for no apparent reason, most of them being women and children.

In our day and age we are so used to mass murder it barely makes headlines, but inserting this fact into the fiction of my novel, I wanted to remind myself that the darkness and the light, the horror and the beauty have to co-exist in real life even step of the way. They hopefully also make a good read!