Steve Braunias Missing Persons: Compilation of stories on how some New Zealanders vanish go missing
17 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM
3 minutes to read This compilation of 12 cases, most of which first appeared in the New Zealand Herald, is a follow-up of sorts to the author s 2015 The Scene of the Crime. The book developed during a time when Steve Braunias considered himself missing . The usual failings, he writes, plus old age, which for so long had felt like a rumour, was busy furnishing my life with intimations of mortality. He was a lost soul who took a special interest in reporting the stories of Socksay Chansy, Nigel Peterson, and Murray Mason. Braunias almost felt envious. They had managed to disappear.
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