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Black Hands

Inside the Bain Family Murders

By: Martin van Beynen

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Black Hands

Inside the Bain Family Murders

By: Martin van Beynen

This is the story of a mass-murder that divided a nation. It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was the only survivor: David Bain. Since then the country has asked: Who killed the Bain family? David, or his father Robin? And why? Award-winning journalist Martin van Beynen has covered the Bain story closely for decades. His 2017 Stuff podcast, Black Hands - based on the manuscript for this book - was a runaway success in New Zealand and overseas, downloaded more than 4 million times and topping the charts in New Zealand and around the world. Now, van Beynen brings the story up to date for 2020, exploring the case from start to finish, picking through evidence old and new, plumbing the mysteries and motives, interviewing never-before-spoken-to witnesses and laying out the complex police investigation and judicial processes, seeking to finally answer the question: Who was the killer? Black Hands is a riveting read from the first word to the last, by a skilled writer who knows his subject inside out. “If anyone can pass judgement it can only be those who sat through the whole trial.” - David Bain in New Idea

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Black Hands

Inside the Bain Family Murders

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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

By: Martin van Beynen

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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

By: Martin van Beynen

It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgehammers . . . when the sounds went away I worried they weren't coming back.' - Ann Bodkin, trapped for 25 hours The Canterbury earthquake of February 2011 altered landscape, history, and most importantly, human lives. Many perished and the lives of thousands were upended. In Trapped, Martin van Beynen documents with sensitivity and unerring detail the personal experiences of more than thirty quake survivors - before, during and after the event - in their own words. At once poignant, dramatic and enthralling, their stories record a defining moment in Canterbury's history and testify to the courage and heroism of everyday people. 'The raw emotion of these personal stories makes for a moving and dramatic book. They provide a fascinating perspective from survivors who cheated death, some only just, and carried on.' - Paul Rodwell, Christchurch Central Fire Station officer who rescued survivors from the rubble A donation will be paid to the Burwood Spinal Unit for every copy of this book sold. Photos from the book (YouTube video montage) '[Van Beynen] assembles a kaleidoscopic view of what it was like in the central city when the earthquake struck . . . recounted by a representative group of those who came through the terrors alive. If you want to know what courage sounds like, then you will find that aplenty in these voices; this is not only a profoundly human document, but also an important written record amid a flood of visual images . . . Van Beynen has an ability to frame people's stories, opening up for us a window on the soul, a vision of what it was like to feel your life was at an end – and what really counted. These intimate revelations grip the heart in a way no picture can.' —Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, New Zealand Listener

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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

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Trapped

Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake

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Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake

By: Martin Van Beynen

It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I startedcalling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgehammers . . . when the sounds went away I worried they weren't coming back.' - Ann Bodkin, trapped for 25 hours The Canterbury earthquake of February 2011 altered landscape, history, and most importantly, human lives. Many perished and the lives of thousands were upended. In Trapped, Martin van Beynendocuments with sensitivity and unerring detail the personal experiences of more than thirty quake survivors - before, during and after the event - in their own words. At once poignant, dramatic and enthralling, their stories record a defining moment in Canterbury's history and testify to the courage and heroism of everyday people. 'The raw emotion of these personal stories makes for a moving and dramatic book. They provide a fascinating perspective from survivors who cheated death, some only just, and carried on.' - Paul Rodwell, Christchurch Central Fire Station officer who rescued survivors from the rubble A donation will be paid to the Burwood Spinal Unit for every copy of this book sold. Photos from the book (YouTube video montage) '[Van Beynen] assembles a kaleidoscopic view of what it was like in the central city when the earthquake struck . . . recounted by a representative group of those who came through the terrors alive. If you want to know what courage sounds like, then you will find that aplenty in these voices; this is not only a profoundly human document, but also an important written record amid a flood of visual images . . . Van Beynen has an ability to frame people's stories, opening up for us a window on the soul, a vision of what it was like to feel your life was at an end - and what really counted. These intimate revelations grip the heart in a way no picture can.' --Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, New Zealand Listener

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0143567233

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Black Hands

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Black Hands

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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

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