Review: 17 Years Later - JP Pomare

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Review: 17 Years Later - JP Pomare - May 2024

One of my 2025 reading goals is to clear my physical bookshelf and as I also have my e-reader, what I have decided to do is to alternate between physical books and ebooks. So as my first read of the year was an ebook, that means my second read is a physical book. Being on a thriller buzz for the first day of January, I grabbed this New Zealand fiction - 17 Years Later by JP Pomare. One of the things I love about reading New Zealand fiction is being able to imagine the places that the book is set as I know the areas and that helped with 17 Years Later being set in Cambridge, just over the hill from where I live in Tauranga. The book starts with a crime podcaster Sloane Abbot winning an award and then googling herself, she reads a few comments that talk about how she is a one-trick pony and only covers white cases. Meanwhile, in New Zealand, there are talks about a case Bill Karamea who was convicted of murder 17 years ago of an English family - The Primroses. Bill had worked for them as their chef until they fired him for a misunderstanding, he returned the next day to pick up his knives only to discover the family stabbed with them. He ran and was arrested. Now 17 Years later with new evidence that Sloane has discovered, she is determined more than ever to get to the truth about what happened that day and who killed the Primroses if it turns out that Bill didn't. This was a great read and did showcase a bit of racism and class levels which is what happens in New Zealand. If you love thrillers, New Zealand fiction, and crime podcasts - then you need to add 17 Years Later by JP Pomare to your 2025 reading lists.

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