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Sonja van der Westhuizen: Top five books of 2023

21 December, 2023

It’s been an interesting year for crime fiction trends. We’ve had it all, whether it’s the closed circle mystery novels with hen parties set a remote islands or mountain tops, the return to the gothic crime mystery a la Daphne Du Maurier, or crime fiction…

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The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 April, 2023

Translated by Rachel Ward — Unlike Erdinger or St Pauli Girl, German crime fiction doesn’t always travel as well as the country’s beers. However, the Chastity Riley series by Simone Buchholz has been something to behold. Beginning with Blue Night, Orenda Books has translated and…

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On the Radar: From Norway with scales

By crimefictionlover

4 March, 2022

Just as COVID restrictions have eased we’ve now got the heightened worry that every living thing on the planet could soon be vaporised in a nuclear cataclysm… but at least there’s our weekly newsletter to distract you. And anyway, as crime fiction lovers, we’re used…

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Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

23 November, 2021

In our first ever – and hopefully annual – Crime Fiction Lover Awards, we bring you our shortlist for the Best Crime Novel in Translation for 2021. Have you read any of them? Which one is best? Have your say by voting via our online…

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Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 February, 2021

Translated by Rachel Ward — German crime fiction is a hit with our readers at the moment. We know this because thousands of readers have been checking in over the last month to read about the television series The Nordic Murders, plus our feature on…

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On the Radar: Hotel under siege

By crimefictionlover

18 December, 2020

For those who love the action genre, Die Hard is perhaps the greatest Christmas movie of all. Now imagine if Die Hard was set in Hamburg. Maybe it would be a little bit like the latest novel by Simone Buchholz, whose Chastity Riley series has…

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Mexico Street by Simone Buchholz

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 March, 2020

Translated by Rachel Ward — German crime author Simone Buchholz has won numerous awards for her noir thrillers. Her most recent book, an energetic police procedural, is newly translated into English and won the German Crime Fiction Prize in 2019. Like Buchholz’s previous two novels,…

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Orenda celebrates International Women's Month this March

By crimefictionlover

28 February, 2020

With 8 March designated as International Women’s Day, and the entire month as International Women’s Month, Orenda Books will be celebrating with three crime releases, all written by women, for March 2020. Set up by Karen Sullivan in 2014, Orenda has quickly become one of…

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Sonja van der Westhuizen: Top five books of 2023

The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

On the Radar: From Norway with scales

Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz

On the Radar: Hotel under siege

Mexico Street by Simone Buchholz

Orenda celebrates International Women's Month this March

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