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Richard Kunzmann
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- Hometown:
- Pretoria, South Africa
- About Me:
- Richard Kunzmann published his first police procedural in the UK at the tender age of 26, and Bloody Harvests was immediately short-listed for the Crime Writers Association’s lucrative J.C.W. Creasy Award for Best New Novel, in 2002. Publication of Bloody Harvests and his second thriller, Salamander Cotton, quickly followed in all English language territories.
The Washington Post has described his writing as ‘recalling "No Country for Old Men" and other Cormac McCarthy novels that focus a literary sensibility on bloodcurdling events’, while the Sunday Times hailed him as ‘an impressive new talent in the thriller genre’. The Cape Times says of his latest book, Dead-End Road, ‘It stands head and shoulders among the many crime novels we are confronted with’.
Richard’s police procedurals explore a contemporary South Africa and a society that is a wonderful collage of African and Western traditions fused into the everyday lived experiences of South Africans.
His fourth book, The Price of a Country, will be the first in a new series pf psychological thrillers, and is due for publication in February 2010.
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- Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- James Lee Burke, Raymond Chandler, Chelsea Cain, Edgar Alan Poe, Natsuo Kirino, Michael Marshall Smith, Joseph Wambaugh ... these are just the crime writers.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Unusual Suspects, The Wire, Human Stain, LA Confidential, Memento, Seven, Angel Heart, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream ... etc.
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Review: A Deadly Trade, Michael Stanley
A week ago I reviewed A Carrion Death, written by Michael Stanley (the pen name of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip). Not only was it a strong first attempt at a crime novel set in an exotic setting, it was also a sheer act of determination an… Continue Posted on May 14, 2009 at 5:46pm —
Review: A Carrion Death, Michael Stanley
Alexander McCall-Smith’s No. 1 Detective Agency introduced us t… Posted on May 6, 2009 at 9:31am —
South Africa's first crime anthology puts me in a reflective mood about short stories
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 8:05pm —
Review: The Third Person, Steve Mosby
I for one am very happy to see when a crime author decides to blend genres and firmly leaps out of the box create for the genre. Steve Mosby presents us with an excellent crime story, which has elements of speculative science fiction chucked in, along with a dash of horror.Steve Mosby… Continue
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 7:24pm —
Review: Last Car To Elysian Fields, James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke is arguably one of America’s greatest hardboiled detective authors, and Last Car to Elysian Fields not only does that reputation justice, it strengthens his position as a crime writer with an immense literary range that borders on the poetic.Detective Dave Robicheaux is ask… Continue
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 7:03pm —
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 2:40am on May 22, 2009,
Reece Hirsch said…
- Thanks, Richard. I certainly hope your editor is right about financial thrillers. If I somehow manage to hit the market at a time when that genre is hot, it will be purely a matter of luck. I wish you success with your new thriller series!
- At 3:50am on April 21, 2009,
Luis said… - Hello, thanks for the author recommendations for London; I will probably take one or two with me.
But, you shouldn't think you dissapointed me, it seems like I should have paid more attention to what your work was about before putting my foot in it. Anyway, no loss because your work interests me as well because it involves parts of the world I have never visited!
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