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The End of the Sahara

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Translated by Alexander E Elinson — In The End of the Sahara, a murder mystery by Saïd Khatabi, the story of who killed Algerian nightclub singer Zakia Zaghouani is slowly turned and examined from all sides like a colourfully refracting glass ball. This is the…
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What Boys Learn by Andromeda Romano-Lax

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Canadian author Andromeda Romano-Lax’s new psychological thriller What Boys Learn arrives at a timely moment. In many countries there’s an ongoing discussion about the rise of toxic masculinity and the perceived unhappiness of men in modern society. A perceptive counsellor like this book’s protagonist, Abby…
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The Persian by David McCloskey

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Fourth in former CIA analyst David McCloskey’s set of novels portraying modern espionage, The Persian focuses on operatives in the Middle East. At its core, this political thriller is about an Iranian program to assassinate Israeli intelligence agents, in Iran or on their home ground,…
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Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2025

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There’s an embarrassment of riches when you’re asked to look back on a year’s worth of crime the thriller fiction. Authors are rising to the moment and creating stories that resonate with today’s world. Some involve the worst aspects of ubiquitous technology (ubiquity being one…
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