Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. It is 1866 and young Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush,  make his fortune, and forever leave behind a family scandal. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who