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Cold Hearts by Gunnar Staalesen. A dramatic and black mystery set in Bergen in Norway. Very well written by Gunnar Staalesen – and very well translated by Don Bartlett. Varg Veum, a private detective, is approached by Hege –...
Shadows on the Nile by Kate Furnivall: Novel set in Egypt and London Shadows on the Nile by Kate Furnivall, is a fast paced, gripping, fun and tantalising romantic, historical novel. Too many adjectives on the first line, eh?...
The Crooked Maid by Dan Vyleta, novel set in Vienna. Vienna, 1948 – the War had ended, and the Cold War is beginning. Vienna is a very different city to that which it was ten years’ previously… largely in...
Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes, novel set in Berlin, translated by Jamie Bulloch. This is such a hard book to review! Translated superbly by Jamie Bulloch (whose work we have encountered in the Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke,...
The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein, novel set in West Africa (the Gambia). First published in 2009 – a first novel – The Cloths of Heaven is a definite winner… Sue Eckstein used to live in The Gambia...
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