The luminaries: a novel

A murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.

"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013"--Title page verso

Cover; Title Page; Welcome; Dedication; Note to the Reader; Map; Character Chart; I: A Sphere within a Sphere; Mercury in Sagittarius; Jupiter in Sagittarius; Mars in Sagittarius; Saturn in Libra; Midnight Dawns in Scorpio; Moon in Taurus, Waxing; Sun in Capricorn; Medium Coeli / Imum Coeli; True Node in Virgo; Venus in Capricorn; Conjunctions; Mercury in Sagittarius; II: Auguries; Ecliptic; Aries in the Third House; Jupiter in Sagittarius; Mercury in Capricorn; The Lesser Malefic; Sun in Aquarius; Saturn in Libra; Mars in Capricorn; Cardinal Earth; A Month Without a Moon; Venus in Aquarius

III: The House of Self-UndoingMercury in Aquarius; Sun in Pisces; Saturn in Virgo; Venus in Pisces; Jupiter in Capricorn; Moon in Aries, Crescent; Mars in Aquarius; NGA Potiki a Rehua / The Children of Antares; The Greater Malefic; Equinox; IV: Paenga-wha-wha; First Point of Aries; Mercury in Pisces; Saturn Conjunct Moon; Venus is a Morning Star; Exalted in Aries; The House of Many Wishes; Crux; Combust; Mercury Sets; Sun & Moon in Conjunction (New Moon); V: Weight and Lucre; Silver; Gold; Copper; Wu Xing; Iron; Tin; Tar; Makeweights; VI: The Widow and the Weeds; Fixed Earth; Mars in Cancer

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