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James McClure

    9 oktober 1939 – 17 juni 2006

    James McClure was een Britse auteur en journalist, vooral bekend om zijn Kramer en Zondi mysterie-serie die zich afspeelt in Zuid-Afrika. Gebaseerd op zijn achtergrond als verslaggever en fotograaf in Pietermaritzburg, vangt McClure's schrijfstijl authentiek de sociale en politieke spanningen van die tijd. Hij combineert meesterlijk spannende plots met een diep begrip van de menselijke natuur en maatschappelijke kwesties. Zijn romans bieden niet alleen meeslepende detectiveverhalen, maar ook scherpe portretten van tijd en plaats, waarbij lezers worden ondergedompeld in de complexe werelden van zijn personages en hun dilemma's.

    James McClure
    Resurrection
    The Song Dog
    The Steam Pig
    Spike Island
    Slang
    De biddende adelaar
    • Slang

      • 233bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Een Zuidafrikaanse politie-inspecteur en zijn Bantoe assistent moeten in Trekkersburg een reeks winkeldiefstallen oplossen, alsmede de moord op een nachtclubdanseres.

      Slang
    • A fascinating look at Policing in Liverpool in the early 1980s

      Spike Island
      5,0
    • “James McClure's first novel arrives like a slam in the kidneys . . . a gripping style, real characters, and an exotic locale. . . . The Steam Pig will not only keep the reader's nose to the page, it will also make [him] think.”— The New York Times Book Review In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why? James McClure was born in Johannesburg. Je published eight wildly successful books in the Kramer and Zondi series. He died on June 17, 2006.

      The Steam Pig
      4,0
    • The Song Dog

      • 288bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      A unique mystery series that focuses not only on fascinating crimes, but also on the evils of apartheid in South Africa. When Lieutenant Tromp Kramer joins forces with brilliant Bantu Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi to investigate an accidental murder, they are confronted by the mysterious and legendary Song Dog.

      The Song Dog
      3,7
    • Resurrection

      • 343bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      A half-dead man crashes his car at the Iraqi border. He is found to have suffered a rare reaction to the smallpox vaccine. But why are the Iraqi's innoculating their population against a disease which has been wiped out for twenty years? Soon after this, a young Iraqi student at the Institute of Molecular Science in Edinburgh kills himself for no apparent reason. At first there seems to be no connection. But then medical investigator Adam Dewar stumbles on the horrific possibility that the Iraqis could have asked the student to reconstruct the virus from the fragments he had been working on. And then smallpox breaks out on the Muirhouse Estate. The priority is to contain the virus, but with riots breaking out on the estate, and the death toll rising, Dewar is in a race against time to discover the source of the disease and prevent it falling into the hands of a hostile nation. A nation which would be only too willing to hold the world to ransom...

      Resurrection
      4,0
    • Handsome twelve-year-old Boetie was strangled and stabbed. Was he the victim of a pedophile? On whom was he spying?

      The Caterpillar Cop
      3,9
    • Snake

      • 224bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      The investigation led by Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi unfolds as they tackle two seemingly unrelated murders: an adult entertainer found strangled and a candy shop owner shot during a robbery. As they dig deeper, they uncover complexities that suggest these crimes may not be straightforward robberies. With a string of neighborhood incidents under scrutiny, the detectives must unravel the true motives behind the killings and identify the elusive killer before more lives are lost.

      Snake
      3,1
    • Artful Egg

      Südafrika-Thriller. Kramer & Zondi ermitteln (8)

      Als sich der neugierige indische Postbote Ramjut Pillay morgens auf dem Anwesen der berühmten oppositionellen Schriftstellerin Naomi Stride umsieht, entdeckt er ihre nackte Leiche. Schon steht Lieutenant Kramer wieder einmal vor einem Rätsel: Jeder glaubte offenbar, die weltbekannte Autorin sei längst zur Man-Booker-Preisverleihung nach London geflogen. Kramer und Zondi finden sich unvermutet im Zentrum der Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung wieder, müssen verbotene Romane lesen und sammeln ganz neue Erkenntnisse, als sie im Netzwerk des Widerstands ermitteln.

      Artful Egg
      3,0