Provocation

Sharp, pretty Stella lives high above Auckland harbour in uneasy luxury with Stuart, a powerful lawyer with a past who seems to specialise in violent death. Helping Stuart out with some of his cases, Stella finds herself inhabiting a sinister, twilit world populated by misfits and murderers. When they begin to work together on the case of quiet, gentle Carlos Lehman, an in-comer to a remote bush territory driven to murder, their already highly charged erotic relationship enters a new and dangerous phase. Richly sensuous, crackling with tension and black humour, yet at the same time moving and humane, PROVOCATION is a terrifying analysis of obsessive love and a thriller of extraordinary power and intelligence.