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Sonja van der Westhuizen

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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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Confidence by Denise Mina

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
22 July, 2022
Denise Mina is back with the second in her new ‘C-series’, featuring Anna and Fin. 2019’s Conviction introduced us to podcast fanatic Anna McDonald and rockstar Fin Cohen as their lives were turned upside down by failed marriages and they embarked on a non-romantic adventure…
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The Lover by Helene Flood

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
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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