Inside the Black Horse, Ray Berard  Published by Mary Egan Publishing ISBN : 978-0-473-31515-3  Winner of the 2016 Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand Crime Writing    Inside the Black Horse  is a fast-moving thriller, a story of fate, and unlikely love story for our time. Pio Morgan is waiting outside a pub on a cold winter night. There is a debt he must pay and no options left. What he does next drags a group of strangers into a web of confusion that over the course of a few days changes all their lives. The young Maori widow just trying to raise her children, the corporate executive hiding his mistake, the gang of criminals that will do what ever it takes to recover what they've lost - and the outsider sent to town to try and figure out who did what. Time is running out for all of them as events take an increasingly dark turn.
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