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The Grown-Up by Saskia Noort

28 May, 2025

Translated by Jai van Essen — Readers of domestic noir will revel in Dutch writer Saskia Noort’s dark new thriller that unravels the psychological aftermath of a mother’s sudden disappearance. Set against the backdrop of Amsterdam, The Grown-Up combines the suspense of a missing persons…

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Splintered Justice by Kim Hays

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 April, 2025

Kim Hays returns with Splintered Justice, the fourth book in her Polizei Bern series and we get to return to the seemingly serene yet sometimes shadowy Swiss city. In this latest instalment, detectives Giuliana Linder and Renzo Donatelli take on two cases that force them…

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White King by Juan Gómez-Jurado

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 March, 2025

Translated by Nick Caistor — White King concludes Spanish crime author Juan Gómez-Jurado’s the popular trilogy featuring Antonia Scott, which was adapted for television in Amazon’s Red Queen series last year. Is it a goodbye the brilliant but asocial investigator and her witty sidekick, Jon…

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Leo by Deon Meyer

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 March, 2025

Translated by KL Seegers — Six months ago, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido were demoted from their posts as part of Cape Town’s elite crime-fighters, The Hawks, after an incident with the corrupt State Security Agency. Reassigned to Stellenbosch, a university town about 30…

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Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

27 February, 2025

Brooklyn native William Boyle sets his latest novel in Gravesend, a changing part of the New York borough. It has the hallmarks of a classic, reminiscent of great American novels like Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, and cements Boyle’s reputation as a master of noir. 28-year-old…

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The Department by Jacqueline Faber

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

25 February, 2025

Jacqueline Faber’s debut novel is a dark academic thriller perfect for readers who enjoyed Joanne Harris’s St Oswald trilogy or Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Hellbent. The story centres around the disappearance of a college student at an unnamed university in America’s South, and the…

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Vantage Point by Sara Sligar

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

4 February, 2025

Subterfuge, deep fakes, grisly deaths and a family curse. Californian writer Sara Sligar whiplashes between Gothic family drama and outrageous high-tech caper in Vantage Point, her latest thriller which is set on an island in Maine. We meet the Wieland family. Rich, successful and cursed….

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Into Thin Air by Ørjan Karlsson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 January, 2025

Translated by Ian Giles — Ørjan Karlsson’s first novel in the Arctic Murders series takes us all the way to Bodø and Røst, on the Lofoten archipelago in northwest Norway. The most prevalent form of crime here, just inside the Arctic circle, used to be…

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The Grown-Up by Saskia Noort

Splintered Justice by Kim Hays

White King by Juan Gómez-Jurado

Leo by Deon Meyer

Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

The Department by Jacqueline Faber

Vantage Point by Sara Sligar

Into Thin Air by Ørjan Karlsson

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