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by Tamara Ireland Stone (Doubleday) ISBN 978085753115-5 Anna wants to see the world. She lives in 1995, in Chicago. Bennett lives in 2012, in San Francisco. They were never meant to meet but Bennett has the incredible ability to travel through time and space and suddenly finds himself in Anna’s world but they know it can

by David Roberts (Olive Tree Publishers) ISBN 9780620522489 One Man’s Shadow takes place in South Africa during the early nineties, during a time of political change. The characters are fictional but the political parties and the election are factual. Don Keenan is a commercial investigator who accepts a lucrative assignment from a friend concerning the

by Stephen Leather (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 9781444700718 What an interesting book. Jack Nightingale, a private detective, is a haunted man. Once upon a time he was a police negotiator who couldn’t stop a nine-year-old girl named Sophie jumping to her death after she was abused by her father. Her mother knew about the abuse but

by Nele Neuhaus (MacMillan) ISBN 978-1-4472-2708-3 Snow White must Die is the fourth in Neuhaus’ series of murder mysteries following Detective Pia Kirchhoff in her investigations. The novel ties together a murder mystery from the past and one from the present. Set in a seemingly idyllic town, young pretty girls are not safe. Eleven years previously

by Brian Freeman (Quercus) ISBN 9780857383198 Brian Freeman’s latest psychological thriller centres around two small Minnesota towns at war with each other. Barron houses a successful chemical research company while St Croix, across the river, has suffered an abnormally high amount of cancer deaths. When a young girl is murdered, sixteen-year-old St Croix resident, Olivia

by David Bloomberg (Ampersand Press) ISBN 9781919760827 Simon Cantor runs a family business in Cape Town called Cantor Fishing. Simon meets Montgomery Imbulelo, a black businessman, who totally changes his way of thinking. This meeting transforms his business from a mostly white company to a multiracial international concern. All those around Simon play a role