SENSELESS

A darkly gripping crime novel with an other-wordly twist.

A small park in a nice Auckland suburb is the least likely spot to stumble across a body. The discovery of a man recently bludgeoned to death shatters the illusion of mid-winter calm.

But unfortunately for James Paxton, death is nothing out of the ordinary to him. Suspicion falls all too easily on Paxton, who's hiding a secret. Not only did he find the dead man - he spoke to him, too. Gifts he wished he never had are called into play when Mark Bradley begs him to track down his killer, for the sake of his daughter. Paxton's carefully constructed new world threatens to crumble as he is sucked into the hunt for a predator, while the police snap close at his heels and the corpses keep mounting up, one by one...

Andrea Jutson, thriller writer, was born and raised in Auckland. She has worked as a journalist, bookseller and librarian. She has published two psychic thrillers featuring reticent medium James Paxton, an English immigrant to Auckland: Senseless and The Darkness Looking Back. In the Sunday Star Times, her writing was compared to that of Ruth Rendell and Jeffery Deaver.

SENSELESS was first published by Random House Australia in 2005.