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The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer

14 April, 2022

Translated by KL Seegers — The infamous police detective and recovering alcoholic, Benny Griessel, is back in South African author Deon Meyer’s 14th crime novel. This time the setting is Meyer’s home town, Stellenbosch, and real life events and fiction merge into a compelling, rip-roaring…

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Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

30 March, 2022

Translated by Alison McCullough — With a Burmese python as one of its narrators Reptile Memoirs sets itself apart from your traditional Nordic noir fare, but despite its unconventional approach this debut novel is one of the most riveting and consuming psychological thrillers of 2022…

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Swedish crime drama Snow Angels comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

2 March, 2022

One of the main reasons people love Scandinavian crime fiction is that it often takes on some of the toughest social issues, throwing complex ethical conundrums for the police investigators involved. The Swedish programme Snow Angels goes even further. It gets right inside the lives…

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Whatever Gets You Through the Night by Charlie Higson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

2 March, 2022

UK readers will know Charlie Higson as one of the comedians behind The Fast Show, the seminal 1990s BBC sketch programme. In the comedy world, he has also worked with greats such as Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Harry Enfield. However, there’s a darker side…

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The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 February, 2022

In The Goodbye Coast, author Joe Ide abandons his popular crime-solver Isaiah Quintabe in favour of a 21st century private investigator: Philip Marlowe. Yes, really! Raymond Chandler’s definitive detective has been reinvented by Ide and he’s working on two compelling missing persons cases at once….

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Five Days Missing by Caroline Corcoran

By DeathBecomesHer

14 February, 2022

Romilly has just given birth to her first child, a baby girl. Time for her and husband Marc to celebrate. But when he arrives at her room in a hospital not far from their home in the north west of England, cute yellow helium balloon…

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Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

By RoughJustice

27 January, 2022

American author Marie Rutkoski makes the transition from YA to adult fiction look simple in this hugely satisfying and emotionally fraught thriller about the broken lives caught up in the hunt for a missing dancer and her abductor in turn-of-the-century Illinois. Each chapter in the…

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The Village by Caroline Mitchell

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

25 January, 2022

A creepy village, a missing family and a curious crime journalist – they’re all part of the package in former police detective Caroline Mitchell’s latest domestic thriller. In January 2011, the Harper family mysteriously disappeared into thin air from their home in the small village…

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The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer

Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein

Swedish crime drama Snow Angels comes to Walter Presents

Whatever Gets You Through the Night by Charlie Higson

The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide

Five Days Missing by Caroline Corcoran

Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

The Village by Caroline Mitchell

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