Kiwi author Stephen Johnson wrote about what he knew when embarking on his first crime book. He knew the cutthroat world of tv news and also the party hard culture of European bus tours after a stint as a tour guide in the 1980s.

His debut Tugga’s Mob moves between present day and the 1980s, following the life and death of a small-town New Zealand country girl on her big European Adventure...that turned into a nightmare.

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Stephen Johnson

Tugga’s Mob is published by Clan Destine Press.

Show notes for Episode 04:

Your host is Emily Webb

Emily is the author of Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill

With thanks to author Stephen Johnson and Vikki Petraitis for reading the extract from Tugga’s Mob.

Pleased be advised that Tugga’s Mob deals with themes of sexual assault

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