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Ishmael Toffee

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Written by Roger Smith — Like Dust Devils and Mixed Blood, Ishmael Toffee sees Roger Smith plucking characters from the different social and racial strata of South Africa and throwing them together in a bleak and harrowing crime story. Released on Kindle, the novella is…
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Ishmael Toffee, a dead Boer and much more...

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On the radar – Welcome to our first look this week at what’s new and coming soon. After a glorious few days of unusually warm sunny weather we’re now back into jumpers and scarves, so we thought a trip back into the sunshine might be…
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Pulp Curry: Top five books of 2011

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A couple of brief caveats before I give up my top five crime books for 2011. First, my tastes veer strongly towards the darker side of crime fiction, particularly noir, hard-boiled and pulp fiction, and this list is skewed accordingly. Second, I’m going to cheat…
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Dust Devils

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When a rich white man is murdered in Cape Town, his coloured mistress is a witness. She and her children are murdered too, but husband Robert Dell survives and teams up with his hated father Bobby Goodbread, a far-right former CIA operative, and doer of…
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Dust Devils

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Written by Roger Smith — There’s something distasteful on nearly every page of this book as South African author Roger Smith paints the rainbow nation in blood, excrement and several other bodily fluids. Yet he does it in a manner that, while continually disturbing, also…
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