The Bookshop Detectives are coming to Auckland! Please come and hang out with us at the completely fab Time Out Bookstore for riotous tales of policing, bookselling, writing and staying married throughout it all.

We'll do a little talk, then you can ask us questions if you'd like to, and we'll scribble on your book(s), even if we didn't write them.

If you're wondering who the heck we are, here is our official bio:

Gareth and Louise Ward are the real-life owners of independent bookshop Wardini Books, with stores in Havelock North and Napier, New Zealand.

Louise is known among the staff as Fearless Leader and Gareth as a bit of a dick; he is, however, the author of the Tarquin the Honest and The Rise of the Remarkables book series, as well as being the bestselling and award-winning author of The Traitor and the Thief and The Clockill and the Thief.

Gareth and Louise met at police training college in the UK and are both ex-coppers. Louise has one murder arrest to her name, is an English Literature Graduate and as an ex-teacher inflicted Shakespeare on inner-city twelve-year-olds. She regularly reviews books on RNZ.

Both are obsessed with their rescue dog Stevie, avoid housework and gardening, and live in the cultural centre of the universe that is Hawke’s Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand.