WILLIAM PIGOTT

 

from The Business of Death

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Pigott is a Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington Film School graduate. He previously won first prize in the New Zealand Society of Authors’ 2020 Zephyr Short Story Competition. Presented here is the opening of his Te Pūtahu Tuhi Auaha o te Ao, IIML MA thesis, The Business of Death, in which a detective investigates the murder of the son of two morticians.