Paddy Richardson

Paddy Richardson (* around 1950) is a New Zealand writer . She lives and works on the to Dunedin belonging Otago Peninsula .

She became known for her psychological suspense novels, three of which are available in German translation. The action always takes place in New Zealand.

Works

• 1986: Choices (Hard Echo Press), ISBN 978-0908715756 , collection of short stories
• 2000: The Company of A Daughter (Steele Roberts), ISBN 978-0-958371285 , family story telling of a woman in Hokianga
• 2003: If We Were Lebanese (Steele Roberts), ISBN 978-1-877228-77-3 , collection of short stories
• 2008: A Year to Learn A Woman ( Penguin Books ), Psychological tension novel, the German translation was published under two different titles:
  • German 2010: Der Vogelbrunnen (Droemer), German translation by Eva Bonné , ISBN 978-3-426-19884-1
  • German 2012: Der Frauenfänger (Knaur), German translation by Eva Bonné, ISBN 978-3-426-50565-6
• 2010: Hunting Blind (Penguin Books), psychological tension novel
  • German 2012: Come play with me (Droemer), German translation by Eva Bonné, ISBN 978-3-426-19918-3
• 2011: Traces of Red (Penguin Books), psychological tension novel
  • German 2015: Your debt (Knaur), German translation by Eva Bonné, ISBN 978-3-426-51449-8
• 2013: Cross Fingers (Hachette) ISBN 978-1-86971-311-9 .
• 2014: Swimming in the Dark (Upstart Press), ISBN 978-1-927262054 . Psychological suspense novel about a GDR-German in New Zealand, there is still no German translation.
• 2017: Through the Lonesome Dark (Upstart Press) ISBN 978-1-927262-98-6 . Historical novel about the time of the First World War around 1914 in Blackball (New Zealand) .

Web links

• Paddy Richardson , Academy of New Zealand Literature