My first Deon Meyer book, "Thirteen Hours" was a huge discovery for me. This author is well-loved among crime fiction readers but I was under the impression his stories were all action and no character exploration. I was wrong. The characters in this novel are sensitively portrayed in vivid de...
Rachel Anderson, een jonge Amerikaanse vrouw, wordt opgejaagd door een bende jongeren die haar vriendin zopas vermoord hebben. Deon Meyer schrijft hier een heel goed opgebouwde thriller met een interessante detective (Benny Griessel). Het is een soort city novel (naar analogie van road movie) met...
Tiny Mpayipheli, a giant man with a gentle demeanor, once earned his living as a government gun for hire. Now leading a quiet, ordered life in the countryside, he is reluctantly summoned back into the game when a trusted old friend is kidnapped. With just seventy-two hours to deliver the ransom, ...
Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: From rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forgiveness, and the race to catch a trained killer.A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeaka...
LA LISTA DEL KILLERAnche questo romanzo uscì prima di tutto in afrikaans, e il titolo originale era 'Feniks'. La fenice è il personaggio femminile che è impossibile chiamare protagonista, ed è perfino difficile definire coprotagonista visto lo spazio esiguo che occupa.Ma è pur vero che la storia ...
I'm not the biggest fan of detective fiction, usually I read more classic stuff like Chandler and Christie from that genre. The first ones remind me of film noir (there's something utterly enchanting about Los Angeles at night) and the latter ones are just adorably entertaining (despite the gris...
‘Morning, Lemmer.’ The musical tones were back in her voice. She sat on the chair beside me. ‘Morning, Emma. Coffee?’ ‘I’ll get some in a moment, thanks.’ The flaps of the bathrobe slid back to expose her tanned knees. I concentrated on the animals that I had been watching. ‘Baboons,’ I said, poi...
‘Egan. What kind of name is Egan? How do you come by a name like that? Do you look at this baby, your laaitie, and say, “nooit, this is an Egan”? Sounds like the name of an alien in a Spielberg movie. Fucking Egan. Egan the Vegan. I’m telling you, that whitey is lying. Jissis, that attitude … I’m...
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