The Luminaries

The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller ( The Guardian ) is now a Starz miniseries.    It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has