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Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

16 November, 2020

Translated by Quentin Bates — With her new standalone novel, Betrayal, Icelandic crime author Lilja Sigurdardottir returns to themes such as misogyny and abuse. What’s new is that the backdrop is not the world of drug trafficking as it was in books like Snare and…

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The Fox

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

26 October, 2020

The Fox is Sólveig Pálsdóttir’s first book translated into English. With its grey, gloomy and unpredictable landscape and equally dark plot it is a prime example of the Nordic noir novels readers have grown to love. When Sajee Gunawardena finds herself desperate and without work…

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The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

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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Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

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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

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