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The Lover by Helene Flood

5 July, 2022

Translated by Alison McCullough — Rikke and Jørgen are lovers. They are also neighbours, which makes for a perfectly comfortable and convenient arrangement. That is, until Jørgen is discovered in his study with his throat slit. Not only might their relationship be exposed, but Rikke…

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Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 July, 2022

Thompsonville, Colorado. 1984. A woman walks into a man’s house, fires three shots – one to the stomach, two to the chest – killing him in cold-blood. After he takes his last breath she pulls out an old Polaroid camera, takes a picture and walks…

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When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 June, 2022

Where do you truly belong? In your ancestral homeland or the country where you were born? Through the eyes of two distinct characters, Soon Wiley’s debut novel examines the search for one’s true cultural identity. The driving force behind this search is the mysterious death…

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Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 June, 2022

Take four teenage girls with diverse personalities and backgrounds. Put them together in a New England boarding school and add some peer pressure to the mix. The end result? One dead teenager and three survivors with a secret to keep for the rest of their…

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Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

9 June, 2022

In this digital age, how secure is our personal data? In her first crime novel, Kathy Wang takes inspiration from her own experience as well as real-life stories about data breaches and industrial espionage in the tech sector. In Impostor Syndrome, she has created a…

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Kalmann by Joachim B Schmidt

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 May, 2022

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — In Kalmann, the Swiss-born journalist and author Joachim B Schmidt brings us the story of a local man’s disappearance from the remote village of Rauferhöfn in northeast Iceland. However, this isn’t your typical gloomy Nordic noir crime mystery. Schmidt’s…

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The Krubera Conspiracy by Jeff Buick

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

16 May, 2022

Barely a year since his last novel author, Calgary-based author Jeff Buick is back with another fast-moving action thriller. This time he transports us to Abkhazia, an autonomous region inside Georgia, which has been fighting for independence since the USSR’s collapse in 1991. Given the…

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Vanda by Marion Brunet

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

20 April, 2022

Translated by Katherine Gregor — Following up from her 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature prize winning novel, Summer of Reckoning, Marion Brunet brings us a claustrophobic, unsettling and gut-punching new book about a woman and her young son living on the fringes of society in…

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The Lover by Helene Flood

Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley

Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling

Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang

Kalmann by Joachim B Schmidt

The Krubera Conspiracy by Jeff Buick

Vanda by Marion Brunet

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