Set in the small coastal towns of Ohope Beach and Whakatane on New Zealand’s North Island, Groundswell is the story of an American detective, Julian Braxton, and his wife, Parvati, who think they have found the perfect life in a tropical paradise . . . until a series of suspicious deaths take place and Julian starts nosing around. The more he learns the more he realizes: no one can be trusted. As he is pulled deeper into the case, he finds himself embroiled in a vicious, complicated world involving international drug cartels and Maori land rights disputes. And he gradually realizes that there is a target on his own back.