Rezension: Parker Bilal: “Dogstar Rising”

The second outing for Parker Bilal’s Sudanese detective Makana, a refugee scraping along on a dilapidated houseboat in Cairo, has all the satisfying complexities of his first, “The Golden Scales”.

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Rezension: Louise Welsh: “The Girl on the Stairs”

Louise Welsh is a rare bird: a thriller writer who takes years over a novel. It may be this patient process that produces the intensity and stylistic originality evident in “The Girl on the Stairs”.

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Rezension: P. D. James: »Death Comes to Pemberley«

This »dream team« of crime fiction, Jane Austen and PD James, combines James’s meticulous plotting with Austen’s sharp-eyed characterisation. The novel begins some years after the ending of »Pride and Prejudice«.

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