PAPER CAGE, by Tom Baragwanath (Text Publishing, $38)
A thriller set in Masterton? I live in Masterton and I can assure you that nothing thrilling ever happens around here. Perhaps I should hang out more on the seedy side, which is where the winner of the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize (for an unpublished manuscript) is set.
This is a perfectly pitched and plotted cracker of a debut with an unexpected crime-solving
