Tina Clough
Tina Clough was born in Sweden but lives in Napier, New Zealand, on a property just outside town. She considers her life as ideal for a writer, she can divide her time between her part time work of translating and editing medical research papers and writing crime fiction, interspersed with the tasks of looking after an acre of garden, organic vegetable beds and a few hens.
Tina has been fortunate to have quite an exciting life – after training in the Swedish Air Force reserves and studying linguistics as Stockholm University in Sweden, she has travelled extensively, done a lot of wreck diving in various parts of the world, lived in remote villages on Pacific Islands and managed to fit in one episode of stockcar racing, one of go-cart racing and a major skiing accident.
Tina’s philosophy of life can be summed up in two sayings: “Do it now!” and “All it takes for evil to triumph, is for good people to do nothing.”
Genre:
- Crime
Skills:
Branch:
Central Districts
Location:
Napier
Publications:
Running Towards Danger
A crime novel set in New Zealand. A young woman is wrongly assumed to have links to the drug trade and decides to disappear into an invisible and off-line life in the provinces. Threat and danger follow her as she strives to protect herself.
The Girl Who Lived Twice
What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that time had rewound exactly a year? Would you revisit your past mistakes and try to do better? Would you try to get revenge on those who had wronged you? Or would you use what you knew to get rich?
When Mia finds herself in her own past, she must decide how best to use her pre-knowledge of one year’s worth of events and personal issues. But when she decides to act, her story is leaked to the press resulting in unexpected consequences and a level of danger she had not foreseen.
For the first time as a print book (2021) – an edited version of the 2013 e-book of the same name.
The Chinese Proverb
Army veteran Hunter Grant thought he had left war behind in Afghanistan – a conflict that left him with physical and psychological scars. But finding an unconscious girl in the Northland bush and gradually untangling her story involves him in a war of a different kind in his own country. Hunter sets out to find and punish the man Dao calls Master, but he soon finds there is more to this story than enslavement. Before long he himself is being hunted by the overlord of a drug empire whose sole objective is to kill Dao because she knows too much. Protecting her and waging war while trying to keep the police from stifling his enterprise takes all Hunter’s ingenuity and determination and puts him in deadly jeopardy.
One Single Thing
Journalist Hope Barber disappears two weeks after returning to New Zealand from an assignment in Pakistan, leaving her front door open and her bag and phone inside. The police are tight-lipped about their reluctance to act, and Hunter Grant and Dao agree to help Hope’s brother Noah find her. Details about Hope’s time in Pakistan gradually emerge but only raise more questions. Was Hope under surveillance? Was she linked to terrorists? And who is the man Hope called ‘my stalker’? Hunter, who in The Chinese Proverb used his front-line Army experience to save Dao, finds himself in unknown territory. When a key person from Dao’s past life in captivity turns up, things reach crisis point and Hunter once again takes matters of justice and retribution into his own hands.
Folded
Notes asking for help folded into tiny origami shapes and found outside a city apartment building, a physics textbook with tiny writing between the lines and a woman who abruptly resigns and disappears. Are the notes asking for help real or is it a game? Hunter Grant, ex-army and with a pragmatic view of justice, reluctantly agrees to help find the missing woman. A high-powered lawyer arrives form the US, and shortly after his meeting with Hunter and Dao a “cease and desist” letter arrives from the Cayman Islands. Inspector Bakker - a woman, who in Hunter’s words “looks as if she would be useful in a brawl, provided she was on your side” - takes instant exception to his involvement and threatens to arrest him for interfering in an investigation.
Dao sets out alone on a dangerous mission, driven by a compulsive need to find out what has happened to the girl who wrote the notes, and Hunter looks death in the face when he decides to risk everything to put an end to the Darknet forces that threaten their lives.
The Shadow Broker
2026 and individual freedoms are severely curtailed, and state surveillance is everywhere. State Security has a Watch List, and being on it means that nothing you do or say escapes the authorities, but does the Kill List really exist? And if it does, how would you know if you were on it?
Coded messages on a found burner phone, top-level government corruption and a shadowy mastermind who calls himself The Broker. In this climate of state control, three unlikely friends start quietly looking for connections and set in motion a deadly game of hide and seek that will change their lives forever. Trying to uncover the truth means risking your life, and nothing is more dangerous than searching for evidence of government corruption.
Lara's House
Widowed Lara unexpectedly finds herself involved with three men. One is planning to use her, one she plans to use for her own ends, and one becomes a “friend-with-benefits” with surprising results. Sometimes a quiet schoolteacher is not all she seems at first glance.