Sonja van der Westhuizen

The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock

16 November, 2022

Translated by Tara Chase — Danish author Anne Mette Hancock is writing the kind of crime fiction that’s perfect for lovers of Nordic noir. Her debut, The Corpse Flower, was a hit in Denmark and appeared in English last year. Now investigative journalist Heloise Kaldan…

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One Woman’s War by Christine Wells

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

8 November, 2022

Step aside Mr Bond, it’s time for Miss Moneypenny to prove her grit as a World War II spy. In Christine Wells’ new historical spy novel, One Woman’s War, we meet 19-year-old Victoire ‘Paddy’ Bennett – the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character who…

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The Winter Killer by Alex Pine

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 October, 2022

In the third book in the DI James Walker series, Alex Pine turns two festive events into something decidedly more dark and unsettling. Alex Pine is a pseudonym for a crime fiction author who has also written as JP Carter and James Raven. Thus far…

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The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

10 October, 2022

Translated by Robert Bononno — With 12 million books sold worldwide, Swiss author Joël Dicker is a global success and one of the most popular authors in the French-speaking world. His road to fame began in 2010 when he was awarded the Geneva Writers’ Prize…

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Sweet Dreams by Anders Roslund

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 October, 2022

Swedish crime writer Anders Roslund returns with Detective Ewert Grens for the 10th instalment of his gritty crime series set in Stockholm. Grens, now 65, is as depressed and gloomy as ever, and the psychological scars of years of police work are beginning to show….

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Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

2 October, 2022

British author Guy Morpuss was a barrister and QC, and saw some unusual cases during his 30-year legal career, but certainly none so strange as the one he crafts in Black Lake Manor. His second novel after Five Minds, it’s a dark, complex mystery, set…

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Azabu Getaway by Michael Pronko

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 September, 2022

Murder, kidnapping, blackmail and yakuza. American author Michael Pronko’s fifth novel in the Detective Hiroshi series has all the elements of a classic police procedural with a dash of extra action to raise the blood pressure. The Tokyo resident sets the novel in the city…

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

11 September, 2022

The Cunninghams are having a little family get-together at Sky Lodge, a snowbound mountain retreat in Australia, the perfect setting for mulled wine and murder. If your first thought is that this is one of those stories where a group of people get snowed in…

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The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock

One Woman’s War by Christine Wells

The Winter Killer by Alex Pine

The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker

Sweet Dreams by Anders Roslund

Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

Azabu Getaway by Michael Pronko

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

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