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Sonja van der Westhuizen

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When Things Get Dark – Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
21 October, 2021
Edited by Ellen Datlow — In 2018, when Netflix released The Haunting of Hill House, a whole new audience was introduced to renowned American horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson’s work. Although the series is based on one of Jackson’s six novels she was best…
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April in Spain by John Banville

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
20 October, 2021
Until recently John Banville published his crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black to separate them from his more complex fiction. According to the author, he could write a crime fiction novel in three or four months while his more literary work took up more…
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Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
23 September, 2021
From the founder and publisher of Cemetery Dance Magazine, a publication specialising in horror and suspense, comes a spine-chilling story about a serial killer terrorising a small town in the state of Maryland. A metafictional retelling of events that took place in 1988, Chasing the…
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Heatwave by Victor Jestin

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
6 September, 2021
Translated by Sam Taylor — French author Victor Jestin’s short yet forceful debut novel is part dark coming-of-age novel, part morality tale. Set over the span of a weekend, it tells the story of a 17-year-old who witnesses another teenager dying and chooses not to…
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Tokyo Redux by David Peace

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
3 August, 2021
It’s been almost 12 years since Occupied City, the second instalment in David Peace’s Tokyo trilogy, was published. For fans of this ambitious author it’s been a long wait, but in Tokyo Redux Peace delivers a humdinger which, according to the author, was in part…
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Mammon in Malmö by Torquil MacLeod

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
28 July, 2021
Ex-police detective Anita Sundström is back in the eighth of Torquil MacLeod’s Malmö Mysteries series. It’s been a year since Anita resigned from the Skåne County Police and her current job at the Malmö’s tourism office lacks the excitement she thrived on as a police investigator…
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The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jónasson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
12 July, 2021
Translated by Victoria Cribb — 2020 was a year of lasts for Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson. The Mist, the third in the Hidden Iceland trilogy, as well as Winterkill, the final Ari Thór novel, were released the midst of the pandemic. Instead of diving…
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When a Stranger Comes to Town

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
16 June, 2021
Edited by Michael Koryta — Leo Tolstoy is cited as saying, “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” For the latest anthology from the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) guest editor Michael…
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