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The Krubera Conspiracy by Jeff Buick

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 Dark Flood by Deon Meyer

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 April, 2022

Translated by KL Seegers — The infamous police detective and recovering alcoholic, Benny Griessel, is back in South African author Deon Meyer’s 14th crime novel. This time the setting is Meyer’s home town, Stellenbosch, and real life events and fiction merge into a compelling, rip-roaring…

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Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 April, 2022

In the third novel in Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series, our protagonist and her colleague, Tim Wellington, are called out to Wolfe Island, Ontario, where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found at the base of a wind turbine at a wind farm…

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Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

30 March, 2022

Translated by Alison McCullough — With a Burmese python as one of its narrators Reptile Memoirs sets itself apart from your traditional Nordic noir fare, but despite its unconventional approach this debut novel is one of the most riveting and consuming psychological thrillers of 2022…

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Faceless by Vanda Symon

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

27 March, 2022

In New Zealand author Vanda Symon’s new stand-alone crime novel, Faceless, an impulsive decision escalates into a violent situation. Two worlds collide one night when Bradley, an overworked and repressed office worker picks up Billy, a Fijian street worker, on the notorious K Road in…

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Sundial by Catriona Ward

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 March, 2022

At first glance, Catriona Ward’s new novel ticks all the boxes for standard domestic noir, but it has more to it than that. In a perfect suburban California setting lives a couple with two lovely young daughters, but of course things are not as they seem…

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The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

9 March, 2022

Readers of historical fiction and Francophiles are in for a treat with Anna Mazzola’s latest novel. Set in Paris, The Clockwork Girl pulls together a series of events that took place in 1750, a cast of unscrupulous characters based on real historical figures, and just…

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The Krubera Conspiracy by Jeff Buick

Vanda by Marion Brunet

The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein

Faceless by Vanda Symon

Sundial by Catriona Ward

The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola

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