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Poisoning On Parker Road
One Family, Two Deaths And All The Secrets In Between
Meet the author as she reveals the real events, chilling details, and personal journey behind her latest book. It’s a true-crime tale involving Victorian gossip, buried tensions and broken hearts – and the yearning for love, both then and now.
THIS TRUE STORY begins one night in 1892 when young settler William Thompson died, causing a storm of debate in Auckland about whether his poisoning was suicide or murder. Intrigued by how that shocking event affected his much-scorned widow and boys, I tracked the family into the 21st century to find out what happened next.
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