TY - SOUND AU - Catton,Eleanor AU - Meadows,Mark ED - Audible, Inc. (Firm). TI - The luminaries SN - 9781486220342 U1 - NZ823.3 23 KW - Trials (Murder) KW - New Zealand KW - Fiction KW - Prostitutes KW - History KW - 1853-1876 KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery stories N1 - Read by Mark Meadows N2 - It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky ER -