Simon Lendrum Photo: supplied
Photo: supplied
In poker, a slow roll is the ultimate example of bad etiquette. It's when a player knows they've got the best hand but waits until their opponent thinks they've won the pot before showing the winning cards.
In his novel The slow roll, Auckland-based advertising executive Simon Lendrum has introduced a new kind of sleuth to the New Zealand crime scene - O'Malley, a hugely successful poker player who investigates the occasional crime.
First O'Malley's asked to find a man's missing teenage daughter, but then there's a murder of one of his poker circle:
The Slow Roll by Simon Lendrum is published by upstart press
