Dan Smith
An early life split between English boarding schools and Sierra Leone, Sumatra and Brazil. with subsequent spells in Spain and the Soviet Union might have delivered plenty of possibilities for fiction, but writing ability and interesting plot lines are going to be important as well. There’s enough in his first effort to have me watching the Recent Arrivals display..
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Dry Season, set on the banks of a river in Brazil’s Mato Grosso, where Sam, a former priest, has ended up, drinking and fishing until one night a man’s death starts a chain of events that rapidly spirals out of control as Sam is caught between an ex-prostitute and a predatory landowner's wife. A chilling read, and not for the faint hearted.
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Dark Horizons
The Child Thief
