Provocation

Young, bright law student Stella lives above Auckland Harbour in uneasy luxury with Stuart, a criminal lawyer with a past. The couple's already highly charged relationship enters a new and dangerous phase when they take on the case of Carlos Lehman – an incomer to a remote bush territory who is driven to murder, and whom Stella finds both frightening and fascinating.

"Darkly compelling."
- Gillian Slovo

"Atmospheric, intelligent and seductively strange... leads you into a slow-burning nightmare."
- Sarah Dunant

 "She has a seething, unsettling imagination." – The Observer

"Grimshaw shows a level of accomplishment unusual in a first time writer, her shiny diamond-hard prose suiting her subject matter perfectly. A deliciously dark treat." – The Times UK

"Provocation is a compelling read, and Grimshaw's prose is magnificent. First fiction just doesn't get any better than this." – Irish Examiner

 Shortlisted for the Creasey First Crime Fiction Award