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Sonja van der Westhuizen

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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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All the Broken Girls by Linda Hurtado Bond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
5 September, 2022
Award-winning TV news anchor Linda Hurtado Bond returns with her fourth novel featuring a journalist as the main protagonist. This time, it’s Marisol ‘Mari’ Alvarez, a disgraced Cuban-American crime reporter who must stay one step ahead of a serial killer while also uncovering the truth…
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The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
10 August, 2022
Throughout her career, South African crime author and journalist Margie Orford has dealt extensively with the way trauma manifests itself in countries with a turbulent political history such as South Africa and Namibia. She’s particularly interested in how it permeates the social structure, often culminating…
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Movieland by Lee Goldberg

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
5 August, 2022
American author Lee Goldberg returns with his fourth Eve Ronin novel, which he loosely bases on chilling series of real-life killings that took place in Malibu, California in 2018. Research scientist Tristan Beaudette was shot dead while camping in Malibu Creek State Park with his…
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Secret Identity by Alex Segura

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
1 August, 2022
The comic book industry and crime fiction are intertwined. For example, the pulp comics of the 1930s such as Black Mask and The Shadow led to the superhero comics we know today as well as the pulp fiction novels of the 1950s and 60s. New…
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More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
27 July, 2022
Katie Gutierrez’s debut novel is a story of family, secrets, trauma and the complexity of relationships, told through the eyes of two women – Dolores Rivera and Cassie Bowman. Cassie is an aspiring true crime writer, but for the moment she earns her money by…
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