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Crime Beat: Waterboarding MD Villiers 22 Jul 2013 | 11:23 am
The perp: MD Villiers The charge: Guilty of writing City of Blood The evidence: L J Hurst in Shots ezine: City Of Blood is a fascinating look at a city that is little more than a disaster with a civ...
Crime Beat: An extract from City of Blood by MD Villiers 18 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
The woman lay bleeding on the pavement on the corner of Loveday and Jeppe Street. The circle of people who’d gathered around had grown into a small crowd, spilling over into the road, causing the tra...
Crime Beat: MD Villiers on her top thrillers and thriller writers 15 Jul 2013 | 04:37 pm
It’s catch-up time. In May MD Villiers published her first crime novel, City of Blood, to considerable acclaim both here and in the UK. Here are her top 10 crime novels and novelists. In coming days C...
Crime Beat: An extract from Michéle Rowe’s What Hidden Lies 11 Jul 2013 | 10:03 am
Here’s an extract from Michéle Rowe’s What Hidden Lies. Michéle will be at Bloody Book Week – July 31 to August 3 – in Johannesburg, along with Margie Orford, Angela Makholwa and a merry host of other...
Crime Beat: Michéle Rowe’s Top Ten crime books 8 Jul 2013 | 12:34 pm
Last month at that den of murder and mayhem in Cape Town – The Book Lounge – Michéle Rowe launched her crime novel, What Hidden Lies. If you wanna know what gets her blood racing when it comes to crim...
Crime Beat: A extract from Napoleon Bones by Jenny Hobbs 4 Jul 2013 | 12:45 pm
An extract from the first chapter of that highly controversial novel Napoleon Bones by Jenny Hobbs. From the reviews: Napoleon Bones is lighthearted, frothy entertainment. If you like canine company...
Crime Beat: Bones of contention 1 Jul 2013 | 11:02 am
Recently I read a book called Napoleon Bones by Jenny Hobbs which contains actionable and libellous references. Hobbs is also director of the Franschhoek Literary Festival. Her book is currently being...
Crime Beat: Extract 3 from Life is a Thriller 25 Jun 2013 | 09:46 am
This is the last extract from the collection of papers – Life is a Thriller: Investigating African Crime Fiction, edited by Anja Oed and Christine Matzke, and published by Rudiger Koppe Verlag. Copies...
Crime Beat: Extract 2 from Life is a Thriller 19 Jun 2013 | 11:02 am
In this extract from the book Life is a Thriller – Investigating African Crime Fiction, edited by Anja Oed and Christine Matzke, and published by Rudiger Koppe Verlag, Geoffrey V. Davis takes a look a...
Crime Beat: Extract 1 from Life is a Thriller 12 Jun 2013 | 03:21 pm
In January 2008 the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, held a crime fiction conference that focused on African krimis. The symposium was called “Murder by Magic”. The papers from the con...
