Sonja van der Westhuizen

The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

29 September, 2020

Translated by Quentin Bates — The Fox has the perfect mix of the elements readers have grown to love, expect and even demand from Nordic noir novels. In this crime-in-translation debut by Sólveig Pálsdóttir the landscape and characters are grey, gloomy and unpredictable. The plot…

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Three Bodies by NR Brodie

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

7 September, 2020

Knucklebone, the first in the crime thriller series featuring detectives Reshma Patel and Ian Jack, was praised for its uniquely South African flavour and original writing. Three Bodies again proves that Nechama ‘NR’ Brodie is an up-and-coming crime writer to be reckoned with. Even though…

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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 August, 2020

On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the…

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Never Forget by Michel Bussi

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 July, 2020

Translated by Shaun Whiteside — With its release timed to coincide with the UK’s first French Book Week and Bastille Day, Never Forget is French crime author Michel Bussi‘s latest suspense thriller and the fifth to be translated into English. Jamal Salaoui has a goal…

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The Mist

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

8 July, 2020

The Mist is the final instalment of Ragnar Jonasson’s Dark Iceland series which tells the story of Hulda Hermansdottir, a police detective at the Reykjavik police force, in reverse chronology. It’s 1998 and 40-year-old Hulda is investigating the disappearance of Unnur, a 20-year old girl…

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The Corpse with the Crystal Skull by Cathy Ace

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 July, 2020

The ninth adventure in the Cait Morgan series, The Corpse with the Crystal Skull, sees the Welsh-Canadian criminology professor heading to Jamaica with her husband and friends for her 50th birthday celebrations. As you probably already know, whether it’s a small English village or an…

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Cold Malice by Quentin Bates

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 June, 2020

It’s been less than two years since we’ve heard from Officer Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the Serious Crime Unit in Reykjavik. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. On average, Quentin Bates has written a novel almost annually since 2011. Considering he also translates Ragnar Jonasson and…

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The Summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

10 June, 2020

Translated by Saskia Vogel — Most readers will know Håkan Nesser for his popular and widely read Inspector van Veeteren series set in the fictional city of Maardam. Nesser didn’t set the series in Sweden because he loathes the stereotypical depressed characters and dark and…

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The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

Three Bodies by NR Brodie

An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

Never Forget by Michel Bussi

The Mist

The Corpse with the Crystal Skull by Cathy Ace

Cold Malice by Quentin Bates

The Summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser

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