Mick Stone’s new crime novel explores the life of Emily Lewis in the beautiful landscape around coastal Whakatane. Emily’s family
home looks on to dunes running down across the golden sand to Ohope Beach where sparkling waves roll in from the Pacific Ocean.
Emily is instead drawn to the estuary hidden behind high rises and multi-storied houses growing around the beach-side settlement.
The waves of the open sea cannot wash away the secret she tries to hide in the mud of her life, until the truth surfaces when her mother is found with a knife in her back.
‘The Mud’ is the sequel to Mick Stone’s novel ‘The Last Newspaper in the World’. Mick Stone once more takes readers into the
town of Whakatane, where changing relationships and tragic lives are set against the challenging beauty of the place.