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7 Days by Deon Meyer

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The run of cracking South African thrillers continues with this book. 7 Days reunites us with Detective Benny Griessel, last seen in 13 Hours back in 2010. He’s a divorcee and recovering alcoholic. At this point, Benny has been sober nearly two years and is…
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Storm Damage

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Written by Ed Kovacs — Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States, struck Louisiana in August of 2005 and killed almost 2000 people. It’s seven years later and tourists have long been flooding back into the New Orleans…
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The Black Box

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Written by Michael Connelly — This year, we crime fiction lovers have celebrated 20 years of acquaintance with LAPD Detective Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch. Michael Connelly’s first little gift to us was the reissue of The Black Echo, the book in which Harry first appeared. Now…
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Ashes

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Written by Sergios Gakas — Perhaps the ongoing crisis in Greece should not have come as a surprise. At least not to those crime fiction aficionados who have come across Petros Markaris and Sergios Gakas. Both authors not only write cracking crime stories, but have…
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New Talent November 2012 recap

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A little over a month ago, we started New Talent November 2012 with a review of Sam Hawken’s Tequila Sunset. During our theme month, we looked at a whole range of new authors and their books – from 1920s hardboiled in Michael Mayo’s debut Jimmy…
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A Drop of Chinese Blood

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Written by James Church — James Church is the nom-de-plume of a writer who served for many years as a diplomat in the Far East. He has written four previous novels set in the region, introducing readers to the cynical and devious North Korean intelligence…
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Turning back time...

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On the Radar – With Christmas just around the corner, this week’s book report focuses on some of the new releases in the historical crime fiction genre due out over the next few weeks. Victorian London? Check. A 1940s plot to kill Churchill? Check. An…
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NTN: Turn of Mind

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Written by Alice LaPlante — For all of the artfully arranged tension and ever escalating gore in many crime novels it’s rare to put one down feeling genuinely disturbed. Rarer still to be thinking about it weeks later. But Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante…
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