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12 South African crime writers to add to your reading list

17 April, 2019

At the recent Stellenbosch Woordfees (Festival of Words), four female crime writers, anchored by fellow crime author Mike Nicol, gathered to discuss the status of crime fiction. Karin Brynard, Bettina Wyngaard, Irma Venter and Icelandic writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir reflected on the difference between the writing…

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The hottest crime books of summer 2014

By crimefictionlover

5 October, 2014

Summer’s gone. It’s time to put on the thick socks, light the fire, and grab a crime novel as the shadows lengthen. If you happen to be looking for a good read, maybe we can help. Below we bring you the top 10 most popular…

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Win a book every Saturday with CFL

By crimefictionlover

2 August, 2014

Head to our Facebook page on any given Saturday, and you can win a free book from the CFL library. Today (2 August 2014), for instance, you can win our advance copy of Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes, as well as an exclusive card signed…

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Broken Monsters

By Andre

26 July, 2014

Written by Lauren Beukes — Detroit always has the potential to be a compelling backdrop to a crime novel, and in the hands of the wildly inventive Lauren Beukes this decaying city becomes a bad dream. The South African writer made her name with science…

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Should I drink this strange brew?

By crimefictionlover

11 July, 2014

First there was The Shining Girls. And to promote Lauren Beukes’ the time traveling serial killer novel HarperCollins sent out a ViewMaster unit with creepy imagery in the slides. Today an odd shaped package has arrived containing – among other things – a strange blue…

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City of Blood

By RoughJustice

29 May, 2013

Written by MD Villiers — South Africa – real life there can be so brutal that for some the country hardly needs crime fiction. Yet in this milieu of racial tension, huge divisions between rich and poor, widespread substance abuse and often mindless violence, crime authors…

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The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

By DeathBecomesHer

1 May, 2013

Time travelling serial killers are like buses. You don’t see one for ages, then two come along at once. At the end of March we reviewed The Beauty of Murder by AK Benedict and found the time travel to be the frustrating element of the…

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Shining Girls in View-Master vision

By crimefictionlover

30 March, 2013

This week the CFL mailbag brought us a small white cardboard box from HarperCollins. Intriguing – firstly, because most parcels we get are book-shaped, and secondly because inside was one of those retro View-Master units – the kind that looks like futuristic binoculars, but really…

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12 South African crime writers to add to your reading list

The hottest crime books of summer 2014

Win a book every Saturday with CFL

Should I drink this strange brew?

City of Blood

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Shining Girls in View-Master vision

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