Jenni MortimerChief Lifestyle & Entertainment Reporter·NZ Herald·31 Jul, 2026 12:00 AM6 mins to read‌Gareth and Louise Ward are married former police officers, who now run a bookshop together and co-author a series of crime books.Louise and Gareth Ward’s lives have mirrored one another’s since the day they met.They were in police training college in the UK together, embarked on the same careers, and then pivoted to cosy crime writers and bookstore owners side-by-side.

But underneath the careers that have defined them, the