Sonja van der Westhuizen

The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Älexander McCall Smith

21 August, 2023

Think back to the most violent, twisted and darkest Scandinavian crime fiction you’ve ever read. Now imagine the polar opposite and you might be close to Alexander McCall Smith‘s Scandi Blanc series – his own cosy version of Nordic Noir. You won’t find graphic murders…

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Dirty Geese by Lou Gilmond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 July, 2023

When Mrs Joyce Newbury brings her boss, Percy Dvořáček, his morning coffee and warmed up chocolate muffin, it’s not received as positively as usual. Possibly because the British minister for personal information has a large hole in the back of his head and is quite…

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Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

5 July, 2023

Seven women. A man’s head. Who swung the axe that killed Jamie Spellman? Rose Wilding’s debut novel is about the anger of women who are not heard and what happens when they take justice into their own hands. It’s 31 December 1999, the eve of…

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After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 June, 2023

Regular Crime Fiction Lover readers will recall that The Woman in the Library won Best Indie Novel in our 2022 awards. Now Australian publisher Ultimo Press has released After She Wrote him in the UK, a book that was initially published as Crossing the Lines…

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Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 June, 2023

Canadian author Christopher Huang’s new crime caper might not have the brutal one-liners of Succession, but it does have an unscrupulous patriarch who takes pleasure in manipulating and pitting his three children against one another – even after his death. April 1921: Sir Lawrence Linwood…

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The Lock-Up by John Banville

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

25 May, 2023

Detective Inspector Strafford and Doctor Quirke return in The Lock-Up, the third instalment of John Banville’s crime duo series. The story picks up where April in Spain finished and deals with the murder of a young Jewish woman, Rosa Jacobs, in Dublin in the 1950s….

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Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 May, 2023

Translated by Megan E Turney — From Ruth Galloway to Eve Ronin, if there’s one thing readers can’t complain about in recent years it’s a lack of strong female protagonists in crime novels. Now, debut Danish author Jenny Lund Madsen introduces Hannah Krause-Bendix, who is…

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Something Bad Wrong by Eryk Pruitt

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

8 May, 2023

Screenwriter, filmmaker and bar owner Eryk Pruitt is no stranger to crime fiction that depicts the dark side of the American South, and has a growing reputation in rural noir storytelling. Something Bad Wrong is his third crime novel and was partly inspired by the…

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The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Älexander McCall Smith

Dirty Geese by Lou Gilmond

Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

The Lock-Up by John Banville

Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen

Something Bad Wrong by Eryk Pruitt

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