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Bryan Mark Rigg has dedicated his craft, so far at least, to the study of a very particular and interesting topic few are familiar with: the “Mischlinge” (“partial-Jews”), referring to the Jewish people who served in the Nazi army.
In Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers he delves deep into the topic, documenting the stories and fates of some 150,000 such men and how their lives unfolded while caught between two worlds.
Olga Tokarczuk may not be all too famous in the Western world, but she has certainly earned her stripes over in Europe, earning many prestigious awards along the way.
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead might be one of her more interesting novels, following the trials and tribulations of an older reclusive woman living in a small Polish village where people are turning up dead under strange circumstances. She tries to insert herself into the investigation, certain she knows who the culprit is… but much to the chagrin of new victims, nobody seems interested in her ideas.
Jane Harper is certainly determined to leave her mark on the crime novel scene with the second book in her Aaron Falk series, titled Force of Nature.
In this story, we follow Aaron, a Federal Police Agent, as he investigates the disappearance of a hiker who went on a retreat with four of her colleagues. Complications arise when each of those colleagues presents a different account of the events which transpired, forcing Aaron to dive himself into the isolated forest harbouring the darkness of Man.
Brian O’Sullivan returns to the layered thriller genre with his latest novel The Bartender, bringing to us a complex story of greed, betrayal, and homicide.
The story is one of Becca Poe who essentially blackmails a man from her childhood, Austin Jenkins, to help her rob the rich Barry Gant. To do so, they decide to use the barmaid Gant has developed an infatuation for, Olivia Fairbanks. At the outset, the plan is simple, but whenever blood and money are involved, few things end up going according to plan.
Gabino Iglesias may have very well given a voice to generations’ worth of struggle in his novel Coyote Songs, detailing the many harrowing fates of the people living in the everlasting turmoil of the American-Mexican border.
A father trying to give his family opportunity, a young artist realizing she is setting herself up for exploitation, and a coyote devoting his life to saving children by helping them flee to America all have their own, unforgettable stories to share.
